While "asshat" and "pathetic loser" are two favorite terms around Jossip HQ, even we must admit that one term has infiltrated our office door: "meh." It's the COOL blogger world term for "whatever"; a veritable "who cares" chopped down to three letters and one syllable. So just where did this brilliant, concise descriptor for your lackluster emotional response arise from?

The Simpsons, of course.

Reports the Guardian:

Some credit the 2001 episode Hungry Hungry Homer with the first use of "meh" as a dismissal, when Homer asks Lisa and Bart if they want to go to the Blockoland theme park and receives the answer, "meh". But the Language Log website notes a 1995 episode in which Bart dismisses Marge's discussion of weaving with a "meh".

And then there's the roots of "meh" in a 1936 Yiddish song. Because, like with every other cultural phenomenon, the Jews kicked things off. Yes, before Madonna.