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Who invented meh?

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  • 19-12-2007 9:31pm
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    JæKæ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭


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


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    probably the same person that invented lol.


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    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    The guy.


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    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    ahh meh cacks are falling ooof


    MEHH


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    GerryRyan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 966 ✭✭✭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.


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    JæKæ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭JæKæ


    So homer invented it.


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    EdgarAllenPoo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    Meh, whoever it was is a genius.


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    ojewriej
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭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.


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    ShaneU
    Registered Users Posts: 14,822 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    The same guy that invented pwnd.


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    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭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.


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    Karoma
    Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    I did.

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


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


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    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,176 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Aliens from planet Meh


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    andyl222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭andyl222


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


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    #16
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,523 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    JæKæ wrote: »
    Who invented meh?
    Yore creator.


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    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,559 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Gordon wrote: »
    Yore creator.

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


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    muboop1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭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...


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    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


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


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    Da Bomber
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    Chuck Norris


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    JæKæ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭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


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    Sparky
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    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!


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    Kur4mA
    Registered Users Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Kur4mA


    Yore Mehhhhh!!!


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    #25
    JæKæ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭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?


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    Sparky
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    Yeah it made baby Jesus cry :)


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    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭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?


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    JæKæ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 662 ✭✭✭JæKæ


    Spankeh wrote: »
    Yeah it made baby Jesus cry :)

    Your command of internet slang is commendable


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    andyl222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭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.


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    connundrum
    Registered Users Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭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


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    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    It was Al Gore.


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