I have to admit, nothing is quite so much fun as jumping on a bandwagon. Like the climactic dance sequence from Dirty Dancing... when all at once, the entire entourage falls in step behind Patrick Swayze as he shuffles toward the stage. It just gives ya chills! "Meh" gives you the thrilling sense of inside-joke belonging and solidarity usually reserved for l33tspeakers and Trekkies swapping TNG quotes in Klingon. I haven't been this excited about an absurdly pointless fad since everyone started wearing those fucking yellow "Live Strong" bracelets!

"NO ONE puts baby in the corner!"

I don't use 'meh.' Never got into it. I also hate those rubber lance armstrong bracelets, crocs, flavored water, plastic hangers, astrology, rims, and personalized ringtones.

It's more than a silly fad. With the internet, the written word is now used in a conversational fashion, and people look for words to communicate what you would normally express with intonation or body language. "Meh" just happens to fit the bill for an indifferent shrug of the shoulders. I find myself using it occasionally.

This is what it makes me think of every time I read it.

"Meh" fashionable? Old Jewish men in New York City have been reacting with that to everything for as long as I can remember. They alternately use "feh" and the slightly more decisive "bleh" too. For a time, it seemed to be a refreshing expression of shrugging indifference to the world, at least compared to the ferocity of opinion usually found in my Irish ghetto. Then I grew bored of it too. Bleh.

Played out. The less Jewey New Yorky this place is the better, if you know what I mean.

Homer: Kids, how would you... like to go to... Blockoland?
Bart and Lisa: Meh.
Homer: But the TV gave me the impression that…
Bart: We said "meh."
Lisa: M-E-H: Meh.