Muttering Muppet

Mass. principal bans students from saying 'Meep!'
AP

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.



Heaven forbig kids try to have any fun in school. We make these brats wear uniforms and go through metal detectors. They can't cuss so they cut loose by immitating Beaker from "The Muppet Show." Perfectly reasonable. When I was in school we used to play the Penis Game. For those unfamiliar a group of guys says the word penis at increasing volume. The person that will say it the loudest (risking being caught and embarrassed) wins.

Now, meep doesn't sound so bad. If these kids are smart they'll start immitating the Swedish Chef instead.