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origin of the trout slap?
Posted: 2003-09-01 12:52am
by Alan Bolte
Does anyone know where this came from originally? A quick google search turns up references as early as 1997, although I personally didn't run into it until i think 1999, on the Borg Collective Tournament website (SE3). It seems to be the most common joke slap, but is it the original slap?
Re: origin of the trout slap?
Posted: 2003-09-01 12:54am
by Natorgator
I always just thought it was an IRC thing, its from before 97 IIRC...
Posted: 2003-09-01 12:56am
by Joe
I first remember seeing it in mIRC (as early as February 1996).
Posted: 2003-09-01 01:09am
by Dalton
Probably from the old Monty Python fish-slapping dance skit.
Posted: 2003-09-01 01:46am
by Alan Bolte
IRC...damn, that would mean it's more of a thing that evolved in conversation than something we can find an early web example for. And only now do I remember hearing about that skit, which unfortunately I have never seen. Were the fish trout, specifically, though? I almost never hear any other fish used, and I'm curious why.
Posted: 2003-09-01 01:56am
by Howedar
They certainly could have been.
Posted: 2003-09-01 02:25am
by XaLEv
Ask Mardam-Bey.