Who invented meh?

JæKæ

Who invented meh, as an expression of indifference? Is it a boards thing? This place is rife with mehs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

probably the same person that invented lol.

Davidius

The guy.

Sparky

ahh meh cacks are falling ooof


MEHH

GerryRyan

Only urban dictionary will know the answer to this (or a quick Wiki search). I haven't teh time or inclination to find the history behind it.

JæKæ

So homer invented it.

EdgarAllenPoo

Meh, whoever it was is a genius.

ojewriej

It's actually going back to the XIV century, first written in a fFrench heroic tale "Les Pous Megout" as "la mehe", which loosely translated means "i know what you're saying, but i'm not that impressed". It made it's way to the several languages (pol. mehski, chin.mi hao, hun.mehege, ger.mehsen, spa.mehito), it was widely used up until XIX century, then disappeared for a while and made it glorious comeback with the birth of Internet.

ShaneU

JæKæ wrote: »

So homer invented it.

No not homer, but it could have been bart and lisa Simpson, that's the first time I heard it anyway.

Tar.Aldarion

The same guy that invented pwnd.

leninbenjamin

JæKæ wrote: »

Who invented meh, as an expression of indifference? Is it a boards thing? This place is rife with mehs

a guy in my secondary school used to say it, around 7 years ago i guess. that's when i first heard it.

actually yeah it probably was the Simpsons.

Karoma

I did.

http://wthax.org/images/249573014558453059198475_mehcat.jpg

Tar.Aldarion

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/meh.jpg

nyarlothothep

Aliens from planet Meh

andyl222

do you really believe it was invented here on boards.ie? is that the actual question you're asking?

Gordon

JæKæ wrote: »

Who invented meh?

Yore creator.

copacetic

Gordon wrote: »

Yore creator.

when she got a peek at gordons equipment..:D

Alfred Meh invented it but he was not the one that came up with pwned. That was Franz Pwned. His ancestors have no idea where the slang has come from.

muboop1

JæKæ wrote: »

Who invented meh, as an expression of indifference? Is it a boards thing? This place is rife with mehs

i dunno but i been saying it for years well before i knew what boards was...

The Bollox

seeing as it's going this way, did the Simpsons create 'yoink!'?

Da Bomber

Chuck Norris

JæKæ

andyl222 wrote: »

do you really believe it was invented here on boards.ie? is that the actual question you're asking?

Yep-that was the question. This is the only place I saw it used. But I probably don't spend as much time in internet forums as you. I try to get out now and again

Sparky

One night when mammy and daddy were very playfull after a few drinks, yore dads runaway train finds its way going into yore mammys dark tunnel. (The other tunnel doesnt work best as alot of stuff comes out the other way there)

A certain lot of months later while yore mammy is letting nature call get the better of you, a little JæKæ falls into the bowl.
Its daddys job then to scoup you out and hey presto! Here we are!

Kur4mA

Yore Mehhhhh!!!

JæKæ

Spankeh wrote: »

One night when mammy and daddy were very playfull after a few drinks, yore dads runaway train finds its way going into yore mammys dark tunnel. (The other tunnel doesnt work best as alot of stuff comes out the other way there)

A certain lot of months later while yore mammy is letting nature call get the better of you, a little JæKæ falls into the bowl.
Its daddys job then to scoup you out and hey presto! Here we are!

Don't know what provoked that reaction from ya spankeh.
Maybe it was when I offended someone for spending too much time on internet forums. Did it offend you too?

Sparky

Yeah it made baby Jesus cry

leninbenjamin

Spankeh wrote: »

One night when mammy and daddy were very playfull after a few drinks, yore dads runaway train finds its way going into yore mammys dark tunnel. (The other tunnel doesnt work best as alot of stuff comes out the other way there)

A certain lot of months later while yore mammy is letting nature call get the better of you, a little JæKæ falls into the bowl.
Its daddys job then to scoup you out and hey presto! Here we are!

lol, wut?

JæKæ

Spankeh wrote: »

Yeah it made baby Jesus cry

Your command of internet slang is commendable

andyl222

JæKæ wrote: »

Yep-that was the question. This is the only place I saw it used. But I probably don't spend as much time in internet forums as you. I try to get out now and again

yes, that makes sense considering you have nearly 3 times the amount of posts as I do. The reason I reiterated your question was the sheer absurdity of believing that an onomatapaoeic term like 'meh' was invented in an internet forum. It's clearly just a written manifestation of an indifferent grunt 'meh' , that was most definitely not invented here on boards.ie, regardless of it's longstanding history of word invention. I'm off to waste the rest of my life on other message boards.... meh.

connundrum

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

The same guy that invented pwnd.

It was infact that guy's ma.

Guy: Lol ma, I just pwnd this kid on teh intranets.
Ma: Meh

Terry

It was Al Gore.