origin of the trout slap?

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2003-09-01 12:52am

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?

Natorgator · Post by **Natorgator** » 2003-09-01 12:54am

I always just thought it was an IRC thing, its from before 97 IIRC...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-09-01 12:56am

I first remember seeing it in mIRC (as early as February 1996).

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-09-01 01:09am

Probably from the old Monty Python fish-slapping dance skit.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2003-09-01 01:46am

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.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-09-01 01:56am

They certainly could have been.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-09-01 02:25am

Ask Mardam-Bey.

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