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IM Scripts

Mac users who also use Adium as an aggregated IM client (basically, my buddy Jason and I) may be familiar with Adium's scripting capabilities. One of the cool things we can do, across IM platforms, is type something like "/insult" and when I hit 'return' the person I'm talking to gets a random Shakespearian insult. Or I type in "/mom" and you get a random funny "Your momma's so blahblah that blahblah" formatted joke.

This is totally hilarious when I can't think of a wittier way to make Tara's life at work entertaining and worthwhile.

So. Ok, this is totally silly, but I'm off my rocker lately anyway, being totally pathetically happily single and slowly but surely going completely insane, it's possible to hack these scripts to make randomish phrases of my choice appear when I do any random key combination in my IM client. So here are some ideas:

/bar
X walks into a bar jokes

/terror
variations on "the terrorists have already won"... I could type "If I let you do whatever you want with *x project* then /terror" and it would yield "...we, the infidels, will fall to the fire of the true missionaries of Allah" or the like.

/you
I get a pop up box in which I can enter your name. Then it populates your name in a bunch of "your mom" jokes. Oh man it's so funny I just can't stand it. Or not.

/religion-race
I get a pop up box in which I can enter your race or religion. Then it makes a humorous jab at you based on my input. We're both doubling over at this point because you're a member of silly /religion-race.

/progressivehippy
Stuff like "but have you reflected inwardly to experience your spirit animals lately?" and "and giving to the system of which you are a part." I don't at all disagree with this stuff, but I think it's funny to spew it. So too:

/businessgobbledegook

/wouldlookbetterhangingfrommychandelier

/iloveyou

/whatswrong

/iquit

November 3, 2005 in Sick, sick, sick | Permalink

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For the record, the Shakespearian insults crack me up. Love them. I want someone to create a "/hoser" script for me.

Posted by: millty | Nov 4, 2005 10:25:09 AM

So i did write one that does crack my coworkers up. It's random quotes by our favorite simpson, ralph wiggum.

http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=2201

think i will help rob write these all.

~j

Posted by: jase | Nov 7, 2005 11:13:47 AM

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