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bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

Does free speech stop at the school gate?

Mass. principal bans students from saying 'Meep!'

Thu Nov 12, 5:13 pm ET

DANVERS, Mass. � Who knew "Meep!" was a four-letter word? The utterance favored by bungling lab assistant Beaker of "The Muppet Show" has been banned at Danvers High School in Massachusetts after students said it to repeatedly interrupt school.

Principal Thomas Murray said the word was part of a disruption planned using Facebook.

The Salem News reports that parents recently got an automated call about "Meep!" from Murray. He warned them that students who said or displayed the word at school could be suspended.

Murray says the warning was needed because students didn't heed his "reasonable request" to stop the meeping.

Danvers High sophomore Melanie Crane says it doesn't mean anything in particular.

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

I'm a very big proponent of freedom of speech, but I think a principal needs the right to tell students to stop being disruptive, and I have no idea why they'd be wandering around saying "Meep!" enough to draw attention if they weren't trying to be intentionally disruptive.

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

Fine, but punish the disruption, not the word.

So now the students will just switch to "Flurp!" Should the principal have to send out a whole new set of robocalls for each word?

Dimitris Stylianos · Mod Team Joined: 05 Jul 2008

Don't worry, "meep" is o.k. here (so far) Wink

Some other meanings of MEEP:

MEEP Manufacturing Engineering Education Partnership
MEEP Management Equipment Evaluation Program
MEEP Mir Environmental Effects Payload
MEEP Minnesota Education Effectiveness Plan
MEEP Medical Equipment Exchange Project
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MEEP

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

http://leatherhead.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/road-runner.jpg

kotakji · Joined: 23 Oct 2006

Is anyone else surprised (and happy) that a current day group of high school students knew that the Muppet show exists? I seriously think that program rates higher on the intellectual scale than the average news service these days!

sarahsiobhan · Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:42 am Post subject:

*meep*

Sorry. Couldn't help myself. My sisters and I have been saying that whenever something bad happens since we were kids.

Example:

Me- Hayley, pass me the carrots.

Her- Here you are....CRASH!

(carrots smash to the floor, scattering hither and yon, and the dogs come on the gallop to clean up the mess)

Hayley- *meep*

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

sarahsiobhan · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:36 am Post subject:

Also 'Fraggle Rock'.....well....rocked.

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

I appreciate that someone else remembers the masterpiece that was fraggle rock. Back when children's entertainment had a modicum of quality.

Puppets are truly a wonderful medium of expression.

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

What the meep?

Confused

sorry, I know...fail! Sad

sarahsiobhan · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:14 am Post subject:

Fox.....I have the entire box set of Fraggle Rock!

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

I didn't think Beaker ever said simply, "Meep." So perhaps the principal should be banning unnecessary and gratuitious "Meep-meep-meep" utterances. Cool

Awesome show. Youtube!

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

Classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUeVAkzEas&feature=fvw

Maybe they should start saying mahna mahna instead.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Ah me. Yet another example of ignorant inter-generational nonsense. "Meep! Meep!" is a rip-off the the classic/classy/immortal/legendary Roadrunner.

A wise principal would have instructed his staff to respond to every wrong answer in class with a tired 'Meep!' and a roll of the eyes and the problem would have disappeared in two days.