Either mIRC is getting out of fashion or I'm hanging around Linux geeks more than I should: The joke "/me slaps John around a bit with a large <Foo>" doesn't ring a bell very often any more.
I just realized that The Pale Man from "El laberinto del Fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth), the child-eating monster in front of the large feast, is one of the most freaky film monsters I ever saw. [http://images.google.com/images...]