A wizard has turned you into a whale - Origin
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No one knows where the phrase "A wizard has turned you into a whale" originated, but the meme has been circulating the Internet at least since 2008:
http://definitelynotmartha.blogspot.com/2008/04/wizard-has-turned-me-into-whale.html
http://www.yelp.com/topic/atlanta-a-wizard-has-turned-you-into-a-whale-is-this-awesome-y-n
Even the site Know Your Meme is of no help.
tl;dr: It's a parody of text-based adventure games of the 1980s but it's not from any particular game.
Nonetheless, I dig the 8-bit Orca:
11:17 AM Jan 15 2014