# Meep **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843 "2012-07-10T23:02:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/1 "2012-07-10T23:02:49Z")
[Meep!](http://abcnews.go.com/WN/meep-nonsense-word-students-hot-water/story?id=9054266#.T_yzNJH06ho) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/2 "2012-07-10T23:03:54Z")
I like Beaker, but this is weird news. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/3 "2012-07-10T23:15:08Z")
Meep yourself! 🙂 That’s kind of a silly article - I can just picture a classroom full of students, all meeping - I don’t think it’s anything worth getting anyone’s knickers all twisted. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/4 "2012-07-11T00:26:04Z")
so, kids are retards, and adults react like idiots in response. color me shocked. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/5 "2012-07-11T01:45:43Z")
Could have sworn that I’ve seen this before and suggested the school parking lot get filled with a bunch of [vintage Plymouth Road Runners](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP-9GsM_P2M). Must’ve been on a different board. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/6 "2012-07-11T02:18:44Z")
That’s a pretty smurfy story! -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/7 "2012-07-11T02:22:29Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > so, kids are retards, and adults react like idiots in response. > > color me shocked. These were my thoughts almost exactly! Did your monocle fall out too? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/8 "2012-07-11T02:29:01Z")
That story was from 2009. Look at the date on the article. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/9 "2012-07-11T02:31:16Z")
The principal missed an easy fundraising opportunity. He has a captive market for the full line of fine ACME products, as well as t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/10 "2012-07-11T02:42:16Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > so, kids are retards, and adults react like idiots in response. > > color me shocked. When I saw in the article that they’re threatening the students with suspension I was thinking “Yeah, that’ll get’em to stop. :rolleyes:”. Ignore it, let it’ll play out, they’ll probably stop saying it in a month. Considering the kids themselves can’t even put a definition on it, it has no meaning, no sustenance, no…anything, it’ll should play out pretty quickly. But ban the word and threaten to suspend them for saying it and they’ll say it every time the teacher turns around or write it on the board when no ones looking just to piss people off. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/11 "2012-07-11T03:07:18Z")
I was the original voice actor for the Roadrunner. They only paid me to say “meep” once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/12 "2012-07-11T03:29:54Z")
I thought this must be zombie thread at first, but no. The story is from 2009. Anyway, [The Largactilites (aka Galactilites)](https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=The+Largactilites+meep&oq=The+Largactilites+meep&gs_l=hp.3...290611.291988.1.292675.5.5.0.0.0.0.142.507.3j2.5.0...0.0.ojr8Pt2faKE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=1deb3a27a4d9b1ab&biw=1216&bih=880) used to say “meep” (and nothing else, I think) way back in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/13 "2012-07-11T03:30:06Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I was the original voice actor for the Roadrunner. They only paid me to say “meep” once, then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards. Yeah, but now you get to share a commercial with the Geico lizard. Everybody loves that little guy. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/14 "2012-07-11T03:43:51Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > The principal missed an easy fundraising opportunity. He has a captive market for the full line of fine ACME products, as well as t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. We got some nasty historical revisionism working here too. [QUOTE=that old ABC article cited above] And while it may be a new phenomenon for Danvers, people seem to have been meeping for years. Some of the earliest “meep” entries into [UrbanDictionary.com](http://UrbanDictionary.com) were logged back in 2003. And one of the earliest meeping trendsetters seems to have been the Warner Bros. character Roadrunner: “Meep! Meep!” [/quote] Road Runner said “Meep! Meep!” ? :dubious: Not any Road Runner that I ever knew! ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/15 "2012-07-11T06:28:38Z")
Coincidentally, the computer I am typing this on is named Meep. It’s a linux box that I use for most of my internet access at home. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/16 "2012-07-11T06:53:10Z")
I always associated ‘meep!’ with road runner, also. And I wasn’t the only one; we used to do the ‘meep’ thing in sixth grade, and that was…oh, too long ago. Mid-70’s. I got my last paddling from a teacher because he’d finally had enough and said the next one to ‘meep’ was getting a paddling. I couldn’t help myself. 😛 Hey, at least I got to pick my paddle; he had a wall of them, all kinds, most made by former students. 🙂 Mr.Flanagan, of Haines Jr. High in St. Charles, Il…you rocked as a teacher. Sorry they finally took your paddles away; hope you got to keep them at home for goofy memories’ sake 🙂 Oh, and… MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/17 "2012-07-11T13:05:49Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I thought this must be zombie thread at first, but no. Me, too! When this came over my news feed, which is another issue, this is news?, I could’ve swore I’ve seen this here before. A search of “meep” brought up lots of individual posts, but no threads or refs to this story. At least, none that I saw while half heatedly researching. We "meep"ed at people in middle school (mid 70s), likely because of Road Runner. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/18 "2012-07-11T13:59:44Z")
Like a bad fencer suckered into a lunge that misses, leaving him momentarily unable to parry, that principal sure let himself be baited. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/19 "2012-07-11T17:06:09Z")
I found this on Futility Closet. The actual source of the quote is given below: > [@](#): > > Guidelines adopted by director Chuck Jones in making Warner Bros.’ Road Runner-Wile E. Coyote cartoons, from Jones’ 1999 memoir Chuck Amuck: > > 1. The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going “beep-beep!” > 2. No outside force can harm the Coyote — only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products. > 3. The Coyote could stop anytime — if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.” — George Santayana) > 4. No dialogue ever, except “beep-beep!” > 5. The Road Runner must stay on the road — otherwise, logically, he would not be called road runner. > 6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters — the southwest American desert. > 7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation. > 8. Whenever possible, make gravity the Coyote’s greatest enemy. > 9. The Coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures. > > “The Road Runner and Coyote cartoons are known and accepted throughout the world,” Jones wrote. “Perhaps the lack of dialogue is one reason. If you want to laugh, you can do so at any time, whether in Danish, French, Japanese, Urdu, Navajo, Eskimo, Portuguese, or Hindi. ‘Beep-Beep!’ is the Esperanto of comedy.” So apparently the roadrunner goes “beep-beep” not “meep-meep” (I would consider the director of the cartoon to be an authoritative source, wouldn’t you?) P.S. I’m not renaming my computer, and I am still going to say meep. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843/20 "2012-07-11T17:19:20Z")
[Mee mee mee mee mee mee-meep!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meep/627843.md?page=2)