• neidu3
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    4 days ago

    /me slaps Maven around a bit with a large trout

    Never understood why mIRC had a builtin for that.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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      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.

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      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.