Oh, yeah. Chatting on IRC while drunk is awesome. I actually make less typos while drunk, because I take three times as long checking over my work before I press enter.
I know how you feel...
to be the first on to start a topic while being drunk.
It's the professional opinion that I'm drunk.
So here it is, the first thread of someone's who's drunk...
If this is a Discworld reference, I don't get it.
It's a vague reference. The fifth element is surprise as you well know, and eight is the number of eternity (non-Discworld related). So 58 is a bit like eternally (a) surprise(d).