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Whack?

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

/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)[reply]

God-Emperors

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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)[reply]

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

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.
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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)[reply]

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

What ...

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

*whack* Shii (tock) 07:21, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Meaning what? Adjust downwards or away from topic? Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 08:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
{{whale}} Realfakebezalbob (talk) 01:24, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
man life is hard Realfakebezalbob (talk) 01:25, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
If you give this user a "Wet Trout Award", they will simply eat the trout.

Abuse of namespace.

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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)[reply]

It most definitely was. GeeJo (t)(c) • 19:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Do you think they should get Wikiminnowed for a sense of humour failure? —Vanderdeckenξφ 20:49, 23 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Consider posting a deletion discussion at WP:AfD. Dragon 280 (talk) 17:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_a_dick. Just saying.

????

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

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 (talkcontribs) 16:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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

You really don't have a clue do you? :) -- œ 23:42, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The conversations on this page are a great way to start the day...they are more effective than laughing gas... Bob the Wikipedian (talkcontribs) 17:10, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
That link provides no real information. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 08:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template

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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)[reply]

See {{troutme}}. -- œ 05:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cornhobble

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

The trout is huge...

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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)[reply]

There are minnows to be whacked with... or are those way too small? Aurora Illumina 02:06, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I had to use a {{whale}} the other day Bob the WikipediaN (talkcontribs) 03:59, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

Colorado Wiknic

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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)[reply]

Requested move (2012)

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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)[reply]


Wikipedia:Whacking with a Wet TroutWikipedia: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)[reply]

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"

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"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)[reply]

Minnow upgrades

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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 ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ʌ≼  01:57, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Trout up for deletion

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

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

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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)[reply]

Epic trouting battle

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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.

Look at my talk page. There was an epic trouting battle. TigerScientist Chat 16:53, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Slap!

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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.

BAM Caldwmic002 (talk) 23:20, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MC1

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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.

Follow me to join the secret cabal!

Plip!

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[1]. Enjoy! --Tryptofish (talk) 23:24, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More descriptive template?

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I'm thinking of making the trout templates more descriptive by having the ability for the templates themselves to tell who whacked you and why, instead of having the user explain themselves in a separate message. I've already made these modifications to the versions of the trout templates ported over to Uncyclopedia. What do you think? ARandomPage, the named space (Update them!) (Stuff they do) 03:50, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

template test 2

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Right! Stop that!
It's far too silly!
Don't take this too seriously. Another user just wants you to know something you said crosses their boundaries of sensibility.

92.24.83.192 (talk) 10:14, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't "Wet Trout Slap" done earlier?

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1979-1985 i was heavy into BBS's and i was sure i had slapped a couple before i went homeless... after my TRaSh-80 was "stolen" (get out... can't carry it? Boo Hoo!) didn't replace access until IRC was invented so decades may have clouded my mind but if my life had depended on it I'd have sworn it existed before 1986 AD Qazwiz (talk) 18:22, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]