LOL! All this time, I thought I had a stalker or a troll!

[dawnofme]

Almost every day, I would get a request to chat on my AIM from someone who had the name salmon as part of their screen name.  At first, I just thought it was very weird, but when it happened day after day, I was getting a little peeved!  I just started ignoring or denying them, thinking my troll/stalker would get bored and go away.

Tonight, I got another request to chat and I was bored, so I accepted it.  LOL!  Here is the transcript.  My comments are under ME: 
Keep in mind as you read my responses that I thought the person on the other end was a troll or stalker.  I think my "bear" comment was pretty witty.


TruthinessSalmon:  You mean the fisherman, right?
 Sent at 9:06 PM on Saturday

 me:  what ever happened to tacoeatingsalmon?

 TruthinessSalmon:  huh?
who's this?

 me:  You are strange fish, you know that?

 TruthinessSalmon:  i see.

 me:  I hope you don't.  I look like crap right now.

 TruthinessSalmon:  perhaps?

 me:  isn't that  a pretty picture?

 TruthinessSalmon:  sure.

 me:  You're a fish.  A pink, smelly one.  So you would think so.

 TruthinessSalmon:  Bot?
That's what I thought!

 me:  Well, if you are a bot, then I guess you'd be pink, but not smell.

 TruthinessSalmon:  mmhmm.
FemaleSalmon.
lmfao
So How's Project Upstream treating you?

 me:  Not too well.  They keep letting the bears near the stream.  They've been picking off my relatives left and right.
I'm think of suing

 TruthinessSalmon:  terrible!
and Thegreathatsby?

 Sent at 9:15 PM on Saturday
 TruthinessSalmon:  So we're being connected by a bot.
how are you?

 me:  are we?  What username does it give you for me?

 TruthinessSalmon:  femalesalmon lol
you?

 me:  TruthinessSalmon

 TruthinessSalmon:  oooo exciting
haha this is kinda entertaining

 me:  You are all with the truthiness and I'm all with the female

 TruthinessSalmon:  do you use livejournal?
yeah guess so!

 me:  This happens to me once a day.
Yes

 TruthinessSalmon:  does it!?
oh jeez
haha
what's your real sn?

 me:  I thought I had a stalker
That is why I was messing with you

 TruthinessSalmon:  hahah yeah i know!
my name is Amy

 me:  I'm Dawn

 TruthinessSalmon:  wow. these things are terrible. the reason i mentioned project upstream and stuff is because thats what supposedly makes these salmon bots
gotta love the google!

 me:  I just googled it now.  Glad to know I'm not being stalked.

 TruthinessSalmon:  haha
well i'll be happy to send you on your way now, dawn. nice to meet you! lol

 me:  Nice to meet you, too. 

 TruthinessSalmon:  good luck with other bots
haha
 Sent at 9:22 PM on Saturday


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreatHatsby  explains it.  themissinghat is a community devoted to it.

Just a heads up, in case it happens to you.  If you have your AIM screen named listed in your user profile and you post to your LJ, it could.  It seems that deviantart and a few other places get this, too. 

And I'll leave you with a fish themed parting gift.  A hilarious song that I used to love from the Dr. Demento Show:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwey31AvAs0