[DECtalk] How many of you are familiar with the Talking IRC Inside Jokes

[Tyler Zahnke]

There seems to only be two fairly famous people who used Vocalwriter;
Flint Million and Hugh Emerson.
Tyler Z


On 10/13/15, Nick Giannak via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Tyler,
>      I was very much an outsider by choice to the Talkingirc culture. I
> went on a couple of times and found myself annoyed at the overall
> insider culture, found it unwelcoming, etc. To be fair, however, I
> myself did a lot of this in the communities I ran at the time. In
> summation, we were all foolish youngsters.
>      The guy who programmed all synth material was Flint Million, who
> also wrote the BOFHNet IRC and Freedom Chat clients at the time. The
> networks associated with all clients BOFH, FC, TIRC, all merged together
> around 2004. I know this because he himself still takes responsibility
> for much of this by maintaining his classic website, as well as a
> revised version. Both can be found here. http://www.themillionweb.net/
>      Cutiecat appears to be one Rachael Spangler. I know this only
> because a friend of mine referred to Rachael by that name, but I have
> never brought it up to her in conversation. Frankly, I have little to
> talk about with her from that time, in my limited attempts at visiting
> that network, I never, ever, ever ran into her.
>      BOFH, of course, doesn't refer to the person by that name from the
> skits. His real name escapes me, but I know that cancer took his life
> around the same time as all of this was going down.
>      Everyone else? Honestly, I don't know. I have a good idea who Mo
> was (mohaned sayegh), but that's really it. I hope this clears a few
> things up.
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
> On 10/13/2015 5:58 AM, Tyler Zahnke via Dectalk wrote:
>> I remember, several years ago, when the DECtalk Archive was a public
>> website, the Miscellaneous folder had all these little odds and ends,
>> and some of them were just totally off the wall, including a song that
>> says "CutieCat is leet". The Vocalwriter section had a parody of the
>> Beach Boys song "Fun Fun Fun" about the BOFH (which stands for
>> something I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say on this list). Now, I
>> kind of knew about the BOFH stories as they were originally written,
>> and I knew about LOLcats and other silly cat pictures, but not
>> CutieCat, and I knew about people calling things leet (or l33t, or
>> 1337) and I knew about n00bs, probably because I felt like one. But I
>> didn't really understand what context these particular bits were in.
>> But today I discovered the Talking IRC site, which includes files of
>> synthesizers using leet language, including the CutieCat song and the
>> BOFH song. Were any of you mailing list members familiar with this
>> Talking IRC culture? Someone who was good with making DECtalk sing was
>> picking on people for not being leet, and it almost always used the
>> same format; "He sucks, he sucks, he suuuuuuuuuucks". Who were these
>> users getting picked on? I'm guessing they were part of the
>> #talkingirc channel. They must have been some rather annoying users to
>> get that treatment. How many of you were part of this, or were at
>> least familiar with this? And who was the DECtalk programmer telling
>> people they were leet or not leet (more often not leet) using songs?
>> Tyler Z
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