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I expect it's based on the /slap emote in IRC. Wikipedia [0] has a page on it, from which I swipe the follwing: `When someone does something inadvisable that
by gknoy 11y ago
I expect it's based on the /slap emote in IRC.
Wikipedia [0] has a page on it, from which I swipe the follwing:
`When someone does something inadvisable that they had the experience and intelligence to avoid, you may likely see the suggestion that they be "trouted"`
Trout slapping originated in 1995 with internet relay chat (IRC). While in an IRC chat room, the IRC client mIRC would allow users to enter the command:
/slap Sam
- Steve slaps Sam around a bit with a large trout
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Whacking_with_a_wet_trout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Whacking_with_a_wet_...
- dasil003 11y agoWow, that's a blast from the past. Did it really originate in mIRC? Somehow I feel like it predated that, but maybe just because I didn't run Windows.
- kbenson 11y agoIt sounded Monty Python-ish to me, and it looks plausible[1]. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsfiD78Cy0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsfiD78Cy0s
- amyjess 11y agoI first encountered it in the mid-to-late '90s, and it was definitely considered an IRCism back then (in that IRC was the only place you saw trouting), but I had no idea it originated as an mIRC builtin.