/me slaps Maven around a bit with a large trout
Never understood why mIRC had a builtin for that.
Most likely one of the programmers was a fan of Monty Python, or perhaps one of the other older references to being hit by a fish. It wasn’t the only action command, just a weird one that lives on.
Here’s an interesting dive into the idea of action commands and how they’ve evolved into things like emojis and netspeak common today.
It was a Monty Python reference and common IRC joke.
I would make bots that would just go around and slap random people with fish lol
I also wrote a contextual menu that was nothing but scripts for slapping the selected user with a wide variety of fish.
12 year old me was a fucking dork.
upvoted, but just can I point out: “FartsWithAnAccent” 100% describes an adult-year-old dork 😜🤪
Man that takes me back. Trout slapping was a huge thing on IRC in the 90’s. I never understood why.
Edit: Apparently from Monty Python. Of course.
Why wouldn’t it have
You’ve been hit by
You’ve been struck by
A smooth salmonid
This gives me flashbacks to IRC
I am allergic to getting whacked. It hurts every time.
Fun fact, this is from Wikipedia
10/10, would wack again
Somehow it was less perceptible than I had expected.
WHAT.
Nobody smacks OR whacks me with a wet trout. Nobody! Here’s what I say to you:
Hmph.
Moist
POV: You are Paul Bunyan
