Meep

Danvers High School in Massachusetts has banned students from saying the word "meep." Officials say students use the word, which was popularized on The Muppet Show and has no meaning, to disrupt school. Attorney Theodora Michaels says that after reading about the ban, she sent school officials an e-mail reading simply "Meep." She says they responded by reporting her to the police.

Comments

[Nick]

The school reported an attorney to the police? It's on now. Meep assault!

[LarryA]

I'd love to hear what the cop said.

[Tim from Philly]

Probably along the lines of "Are you Effin' kidding me???"

[Paul]

Nope, they probably called in Department of Homeland Security and Federal Agents (using a banned word over the inernet affects interstate commerce) and a full investigation will occur.

[Vince]

Don't forget that the newest hate law legislation allows prosecution for using stuff that make the recipient "feel bad". She'll be doing hard time for this!

[wylie]

I'd like the ban the phrase "Meep Meep". Damn Roadrunner.

[Tim from Philly]

The principal, Thomas Murray, can be reached at [e-mail]. Let's all send this fascist thug a message.

[John Pirie]

Duly sent

[William Walsh]

I sent mine off with a few choice words. Can't wait for the meeping police to show up. I ran down to the local Krispy Kreeme to have something special for them.

[LarryA]

Good thing there aren't any other words that can disrupt school.

[Matthew]

I assume they are filtering for "meep" at this point, but saying

meap
meeep
me p

etc., should still get the point across.

[Scott]

Meeep!

[Predicador]

one could as well use IPA:

[mi:p]!

[miklen]

WTF? What exactly are the police supposed to arrest her for? Felony back-talk?

[Some meeper]

More info. on the attorney's site: http://theodoramichaels.com/articles/meep.php

[K.T.]

Does the school seriously not have rules against disruption of classes? They actually needed to "ban" the word causing the disruption? My school has a rule, enforced quite regularly, that allows punishment for the willful disruption of classtime, school events, etc.

Perhaps we should simply ban educational administrators on the grounds of complete cluelessness.

[happyjuggler0]

Meep. Perhaps we should simply ban government from owning and running K-12 schools. Privatize the suckers and give parents tuition vouchers redeemable at a fixed amount for whatever school they send their kid to.

Let competition reign. Meep.

[John C. Randolph]

Perhaps we should simply ban government from owning and running K-12 schools.

That's a ban I could support.

-jcr

[Alice]

as would i

[Aresen]

meep meep

[TRN]

Meep.

[happyjuggler0]

There's no team in meep.

[the friendly grizzly]

meighp!

[d]

En espanol: mip.

[Kryton]

I've done my part

http://i838.photobucket.com/al.....e/meep.png

[C-man]

"Meep off.

From Pennsylvania with love,

One meepin' dude"

I wonder if I'll get a reply...

[B]

I so want to email Meep to him, but considering just how much "authority" the cops have I probably would be jailed.

[doubled]

Haven't those school administrators heard , 'the meep shall inherit the earth'.

[Lorenzo]

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry " 'meep! 'meep! 'meep! 'meep!"
So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.

-- William Blake

[sixstring]

Awesome find Lorenzo. I am siccing the cops on this Blake dude.

[Warren]

William Blake?

[Contemplationist]

Petty fascism everywhere

[the friendly grizzly]

"...and miles to go before I meep".

[Delmuir]

I also sent an e-mail containing nothing but meeps.

[John C. Randolph]

Obviously, if the authorities don't nip this in the bud, the next thing you know the kids will be running into tunnel entrances painted on sheer rock faces.

-jcr

[The Bearded Hobbit]

+10 For The Win

Is that English enough??

(Meeping squirrels)

... Hobbit

[anarch]

I'p.

Favoring the nominative in indeterminate or otherwise obscure contexts.

[Martin Owens]

Wasn't it the Road Runner who first said
"meep-meep", circa early 1950's? Quick, put Bugs Bunny on the enemies list.

[TheBlocheads]

I meep, you meep, he/she/it meep, we are meeping, I have meeped

[Warren]

This sort of retarded over-reach of authority demands the following response:

SNARF!

[Hormonal Redhead]

'Danvers High School in Massachusetts has banned students from saying the word "meep." '

Meh. What meeping idiots!

[toddb]

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Meep at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.

[briareus]

This is exactly the scene I had in my head when I read the story. Ha, thanks.

[Doctor Nebula]

To Meep or not to Meep - that is the question...

[Unix Ronin]

It seems to me the Danvers student body has missed the blindingly obvious response:

Replace all uses of the word 'meep' with the word 'principal'. Let's see the principal ban students from saying THAT.

[cartoonmayhem]

To thine own MEEP be true.

[Gina Marie]

GOT MEEP?

[K]

As I lay me down to meep, I pray the Lord my soul to meep. And if I die before I meep, I pray the Lord my soul to meep.