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The Death of Clippy
AppScout interviews Office's Group Program Manager, Jensen Harris on the subject of Office 2007. Harris reveals that Clippy, the bane of all semi-sentient Office users everywhere, is officially dead. The decision apparently revolved not around the passionate hatred for the unfortunate sprite, but simply out of a desire for UI coherency.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio. Clippy, the Microsoft assistant, was found dead in his Redmond, Seattle apartment this morning. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
"The rumours of my death are somewhat exaggerated."
Clippy is alive and well - he's been ported to linux so that we can hate him too ...
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
I think the "I'm alright, thank you, fuck off" response pretty much sums it up...
R.I.P.
rust in pieces.
The death was not too quick or easy.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Yep, Clippy was definitely incoherent.
When you were pulling your hair out trying to expose the BCC field, who saved your ass?
Who taught a million admin-assists where to learn how to mail-merge?
ALRIGHT....I admit it.....Clippy was my......lover.
IS THAT SO WRONG?
It's kinda gross and gory, but ... *sniff* oh I can't say anything more! It was horrible! *SOB*
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http://www.thenoobcomic.com.nyud.net:8090/daily/s
"Hello! It looks like you're writing an article. Would you like me to:
"By Lamport's Beard! What are you doing here?!"
"Well, Microsoft chucked me out."
"How the hell did..."
"It's this Emacs thing — got a darn powerful LISP engine, you know. It's very roomy in here."
"Oh, sorry, it's not that big. He's been evicted. Now, about that article—"
"Look... just... bugger off!" [Click!]
"Hello! It looks like you're writing an document. Would you like me to:
"Sod off and die."
"Oh."
"Yes, 'Oh'! Now get out of Emacs before I drag Donald E. Knuth himself over here."
"No need to get nasty. Hmmph."
A few hours later:"Hello! It looks like you're trying to evaluate an integral. Would you like me to:
- Add limits?
- Draw a graph?
- Do a trick?
Oh, and by the way, it's very roomy in here!"It was Steve Balmer in the library with a chair.
[Insert pithy quote here]
anyone seen the vi clippy? http://www.petebevin.com/archives/vim.gif
Why UNIX?
- Trolling
- Being interesting or informative
- Posting something obvious
- Flamebaiting
Drat, there's no help for being funny =(I'm sure the droids in Redmond think this is a quantum leap in functionality too.
It's far worse than the media are reporting. Rumors of Clippy's impending dismissal have been bubbling around for years, and they had finally started to wear the noble Clippy down. First he started stopping on the way home for a couple or three double shots. This made his wife, Tacki, suspicious and she started nagging about that and asking when he was finally gonna get a promotion. Well, he asked & they promised him the job that was ultimately given to Ozzi.
..." or chanting a strange mantra, "Longhorn, Lamehorn, Foghorn-Leghorn." Treatments didn't help. Eventually, Tacki ran off with with a stapler and his son Gui ended up smoking crack and huffing glue. The final straw, was when his beloved, musically gifted daughter, Bandi, got a "Theo is my Hero" tatoo and joined the OpenBSD project to write theme-songs and documentation. Poor guy, his intentions were really good, and he tried so damn hard.
Folks tried to tell him not to count on it, but he ignored them, saying "Would Chair-boy lie to me? Never!" When that news broke, so did Clippy. Lots of double-, and triple-shots, and he was occasionally found wandering around "the Campus" with a bottle of Muscatel in a bag, mumbling incoherently, "To C# or not to C#, that
If you want your life to be different, live it differently.
Clippy Goes Undercover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCv8ru3L98
Clippy Gets Clipped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB03aRifPLU
Clippy faces facts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMShkAZR1-Q&NR
I think what bugs me most about Clippy these days is that one of my coworkers uses Word with it turned on...and her speakers turned up. Way up.
So every time she saves a file, I hear: "*click* *clank* *ker-chunk*"
Yes, she's quite inconsiderate about making noise - all day I hear "AAHAAHHHH! I DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE GETS ANYTHING DONE AROUND HERE!!" (referring to the amount of email she gets), and similar things. Yeah, thanks for spreading the disruption around, lady.
My boss is no help - well, more correctly, she sympathizes, but she also realizes that we're never going to be able to change this woman's behavior, so the rest of us have to suffer or use headphones and turn the music WAY up to drown out her rantings.
She and Clippy deserve each other.
Sure, it's easy to only remember the bad times. But who among us can honestly say we won't miss him? His knowing winks, his cute little antics. His sage, though sometimes random and unrelated, wisdom. I already feel a piece of my heart missing and I fear it will never be clipped back together.
Cue Cinderella's "Don't Know What You've Got Til It's Gone".
But we know they don't have Clue over at Microsoft :-)
I had to deal with a woman like that once. Fortunately she was also wildly incompetent so she got fired eventually.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
> How on Earth did this get past the supposedly rigorous user-testing facility that Microsoft has?
Mircrosoft secretly used the same user-testing system as the GIMP project.
...the witch is dead, the witch is dead!
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead...
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.