Your experience with Lotus Notes
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I will drive to your house and beat you with a large trout.
What's the origin of trouting? Mirc supports it as a default slap, but noone I've talked to knew why/where it came from.
A famous feature associated with mIRC even though it predates it is the ability to "slap" another user by right-clicking the target's nickname. This results in the line of text "A slaps B around a bit with a large trout". It serves no other function than to send the message, which is merely an execution of the "/action" ("/me") command in IRC. The sentence "A slaps B around a bit with a large trout" is thought to be a reference to Monty Python's sketch The Fish-Slapping Dance. This function can be removed by editing mIRC's built-in script.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage