If you could be famous...

[Goodsoulette]

what would you want to be famous for?

[sophie_1003]

Finding a cure (that doesn't have any side effects) to all the woman problems imaginable

[4getmenot]

what would we talk about then though sophie??

[Octavius]

Meh means rubbish. It means boring. It means not worth the effort, who cares, so-so, whatever. It is the all-purpose dismissive shrug of the blogger and messageboarder. And it is ubiquitous.

No one is quite sure where it comes from. Graeme Diamond, principal editor of the new word group at the Oxford English Dictionary, says it's not yet suitable for the OED, but he does have a "meh" file, and the first recorded print usage occurred in the Edmonton Sun newspaper in Canada in 2003: "Ryan Opray got voted off Survivor. Meh." He thinks, however, it sprang into common usage from the Simpsons.

Some credit the 2001 episode Hungry Hungry Homer with the first use of "meh" as a dismissal, when Homer asks Lisa and Bart if they want to go to the Blockoland theme park and receives the answer, "meh". But the Language Log website notes a 1995 episode in which Bart dismisses Marge's discussion of weaving with a "meh".

Some amateur etymologists reckon meh is derived from Yiddish, pointing to a 1936 song that uses it as the sound of a goat bleating. A poster on some net thing called it a "Yiddish interjection used to express disdain that borders on apathy", but did not source it.

It is not a word to use lightly. Meh.

[Goodsoulette]

http://cilm.com/a-n-p/r/richardson/rayrichards onpackagea.shtml



Just found out I am famous, only cartoon me but hey. I am the first 2 pics of his thumbnails and coud be on bedroom walls of comic geeks everywhere......hoorah! Im actually well pleased with that, whoda thunk chubby old me would be the face of that!!!!

[Skreecheeboy]

Goodsoulette, do you know that guy or have you just assigned a fantasy image of a beautiful girl to yourself?

[Goodsoulette]

Yeah I know him lol, I am keeper of the originals and had to give permission for my likeness to be used. You are on my myspace yeah...go to raysee illustrations and you can see his page of girls and my name is mentioned as the model. I use the word model losely.

[Skreecheeboy]

I said something on the radio once. It was going to be on TV but there was a lot of stuff in the news that day so they cut what I said and put a sentence of it on Radio 5 news! I was over the moon! Have also appeared in promo material and am working on a new piece of artwork but don't think I feature on the web much, apart from places like this, bebo and myspace. Belter of a pic of me on the Wickerman website, the same year the ripped me off for 4 tickets that my ex lost!

[Skreecheeboy]

I said something on the radio once. It was going to be on TV but there was a lot of stuff in the news that day so they cut what I said and put a sentence of it on Radio 5 news! I was over the moon!

[saxy_jag]

I wouldn't mind what it was, so long as it was something they all said I was rubbish at at school. Something musical would be nice, or perhaps I could be some sort of troubleshooter who gets called in when important jobs need to be done.

[Skreecheeboy]

Don't know what happened up there, PC seemed to freeze on me! Then got SQL server errors all the time! Sounds like a job for sexy_jag to sort out!

[Whickerman]

I'd like to be fanous for impregnating the three Corrs sisters, Nigella Lawson, Gail Porter, Carol Vorderman, and Charlotte Church, all in the one week.