PoliCon
03-02-2009, 02:18 PM
By Mark Caro | Tribune reporter
March 2, 2009
"Meh" is by definition something you don't get hot about.
If this shrug of a word were a person, it would be Derek Smalls, the Spinal Tap bassist (played by Harry Shearer) who characterized himself as "lukewarm water."
Yet "The Daily Show" correspondent John Hodgman set off something of a "meh" firestorm by kvetching about the expression on Twitter last week.
"Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word 'meh'?" he wrote. "Nothing announces 'I have missed the point' more than that word."
Over additional tweets he added: "It is the essence of blinkered Internet malcontentism. And a rejection of joy."
Some agreed with Hodgman's outburst. Others: "Meh."
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March 2, 2009
"Meh" is by definition something you don't get hot about.
If this shrug of a word were a person, it would be Derek Smalls, the Spinal Tap bassist (played by Harry Shearer) who characterized himself as "lukewarm water."
Yet "The Daily Show" correspondent John Hodgman set off something of a "meh" firestorm by kvetching about the expression on Twitter last week.
"Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word 'meh'?" he wrote. "Nothing announces 'I have missed the point' more than that word."
Over additional tweets he added: "It is the essence of blinkered Internet malcontentism. And a rejection of joy."
Some agreed with Hodgman's outburst. Others: "Meh."
CONTINUED (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-talk-mehmar02,0,4571581.story)