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/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 😜🤪
Why wouldn’t it have
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.