more tips:
if you want to answer a person by nick type the 1st few letters of thier nick then hit tab. hitting tab again will scroll though the nicks that start with those letters.
also some fun stuff
!lolcat gets you a quote from the lolcat bible
!ten gets you a random lolcat commandment
!disc is random quotes from terry pratchetts discworld series of books
!bender gets a random bender quote.
example:
[16:03:04] <minifang> !bender
[16:03:05] <Cerberus> What kind of party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker.