You do not happen to use a very, very old version of mIRC, do you? Also, some cracked mIRC may be defective. The only legit place to download mirc is straight from www.mirc.com
Anyway, I don't know why it fails for you while it works for me perfectly:> <@Jethro> 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
<@Jethro> Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!