Wikipedia talk:Whacking with a wet trout

Whack?

I thought that is supposed to be slap!. --Edokter (Talk) 16:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

• You mean this one? >Radiant< 12:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually, I was thinking about IRC. /me slaps [$user] with a large trout! --Edokter (Talk) 23:37, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

/me slaps Soms around a bit with a large trout
Mode +b !Slapper*@* by Soms

Wow, for some reason the word "wikitrout" just makes me giggle. :-D --Iamunknown 16:01, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

God-Emperors

You do realise that the God Emperor of Dune was half-trout, don't you?? Are we sure we want to go down this road? :P The Land 12:36, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

What are you talking about?? He was half worm! mathwhiz29 03:09, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

Origin link

Would I be correct in presuming that this expression derives from The Fish-Slapping Dance? If so, I find it hard to believe that we don't have a link yet. Newyorkbrad 21:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

I had the same reaction. -Phoenixrod 03:25, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

What ...

What the hell is this all about? ReluctantPhilosopher (talk) 11:48, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

*whack* Shii (tock) 07:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Meaning what? Adjust downwards or away from topic? Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 08:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

If you give this user a "Wet Trout Award", they will simply eat the trout.

Abuse of namespace.

This is not funny. This abuse of the namespace should be deleted and the perpetrators punished. This should be a Christ-blessed article, and NOT A STUB, if Scientizzle is going to link to it from press releases. I hope you enjoyed your nice inside joke, turkeys, because now you look asinine. I hope it was worth it. 76.247.104.56 (talk) 02:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

It most definitely was. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 19:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Do you think they should get Wikiminnowed for a sense of humour failure? —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 20:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I do not see any "humour" in this projectpage. Looks rather pathetic and childish. Billlogalneedslove (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:41, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Consider posting a deletion discussion at WP:AfD. Dragon 280 (talk) 17:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_a_dick. Just saying.

????

4DJONG (talk) 22:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)-This is a little offensive really!!!! I don't know what this is about!!!!

It's for people who know each other well enough on Wikipedia that they can tease each other publicly for making rather stupid mistakes. I believe the first use of it was when an admin accidentally deleted the main page. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

?

"Clue levels"? Koro Neil (talk) 16:19, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

You really don't have a clue do you? :) -- œ^™ 23:42, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

The conversations on this page are a great way to start the day...they are more effective than laughing gas... Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 17:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

That's why "clue" is a link. Click on it and learn about modern internet culture. some page -- TurtleBoy0 03:58, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

That link provides no real information. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 08:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Template

This isn't a template that you can put on someone's talk page, but the whack someone with a minnow page is. Should the trout be turned into a template to make it more consistent and to make it easier to hit people with it? some page -- TurtleBoy0 04:01, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

See {{troutme}}. -- œ^™ 05:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Cornhobble

Is this any relation to cornhobbling? Eeekster (talk) 05:18, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

The trout is huge...

I would like an option to be troutslapped with an smaller trout. Troutalt is the right size, but lacks the simplicity of a simple "WHACK!" is favor of a long explanation about "Spreading the WikiFun." Guy Macon (talk) 22:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

There are minnows to be whacked with... or are those way too small? Aurora Illumina 02:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

I had to use a {{whale}} the other day Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 03:59, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Minnow is not bad. A prefer the size of Troutalt but could live with Minnow. Alas, both alternatives lack the convenient troutslapping afforded by Template:troutme and Template:User trout. If you use either of those two trout-related templates, you are stuck with the huge trout. Guy Macon (talk) 11:35, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Colorado Wiknic

All Wikipedians are cordially invited to the Colorado celebration of the 2011 Great American Wiknic on June 25. We will meet Saturday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 at the D Note, 7519 Grandview Avenue in Arvada. Please e-mail Jacques Delaguerre at Special:EmailUser/Jaxdelaguerre if you plan to attend. Be there or be square! –  Buaidh  19:17, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Requested move (2012)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Whacking with a Wet Trout → Wikipedia:Whacking with a wet trout – Per WP:NCCAPS. How serious am I about this? I'm really not sure. --BDD (talk) 17:30, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

• Support Policies like Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) may seem to be trivial, but consistent naming not only looks more professional, it makes like easier to any program that is searching Wikipedia. --Guy Macon (talk) 22:48, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
• Support while it may not be "necessary" it's in line with naming conventions, no reason not to. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 00:58, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
• Comment this isn't an article, so NCCAPS doesn't apply. That being said, either way works. And if we were to look 'professional', we should be using title case. -- 70.24.250.110 (talk) 11:30, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Seeing as BDD whacked me with a wet trout in a recent move discussion I think I should agree with him. How serious am I about this? I have no idea either! Zarcadia (talk) 02:10, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Yes, do it! (I mean, rename the article, not...) CsDix (talk) 00:17, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support. One does become accustomed to the title-naming convention for articles in Wikipedia; so, in the Wikipedia policy documents, one would instinctually expect the same. Do I know what I am talking about? Sadly, no, but I thought I should weigh in (on the Wet Trout) as it is a weighty issue deserving of at least one iota of my attention. Go ahead, slap away if you feel I need an adjustment to my clue level. As of this moment, I am none the wiser about the issue in question, but I support the motion. --Skol fir (talk) 21:05, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
• Completely Indifferent, Couldn't Care Less but please leave the resulting redirect for those of us who have a sense of harmless fun (and for existing links of course). Note however that Template:R from other capitalisation is not applicable here. Andrewa (talk) 06:39, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Supermarket worker in Lancashire "breamed"

"Irish girl sought after fish-slapping incident in Lancashire". BBC News Online. 25 February 2014. Police in England are searching for an Irish teenager who is said to have slapped a shop worker across the face with a large fish.

Andy Dingley (talk) 11:21, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Minnow upgrades

I've upgraded {{Minnow}} to support different alignments, floating to the left or right (e.g. to attach it to a talk page post without disrupting the page), and arbitrary CSS styling.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  01:57, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Template:Trout up for deletion

{{trout}} has been nominated for deletion by someone -- 70.51.46.195 (talk) 05:46, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

It's older than 1995

At University we had a similar "slap with a wet fish" emote on our text-based MUD at University of Leeds in 1991 and I dare say it was around before then on green screens. I think the early MUDs started in the 1970's. It was possible to play online between UK universities using UNIX commands to make the login. Emotes were like an early form of emoji. Maybe this counts as "Original Research" as I am one of those originally around before the www went live in 1993. :-) Oh, and this smiley is just as old too. David Crayford ☎ 19:55, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

get trutted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.