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A tribute to the unsung hero Clippy  :30- :30- :30-


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCv8ru3L98 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCv8ru3L98)

Clippy Faces Facts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMShkAZR1-Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMShkAZR1-Q)

Clippy must die! (Blender animation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjC_0HkLgi8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjC_0HkLgi8)

clippy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INFNjTX2PPc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INFNjTX2PPc)

Clippy Gets Clipped

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB03aRifPLU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB03aRifPLU)

How to get rid of clippy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KTPIpP9JU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KTPIpP9JU)

Death to Clippy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ej4tW7hLkE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ej4tW7hLkE)

paperclip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnwUfzgSpM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnwUfzgSpM)

YouTube Office Assistant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o45slcWkPJU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o45slcWkPJU)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aXzMuYN7U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aXzMuYN7U)

Man, you were posting them faster than I could watch them! :5-

BTW, thread title nees to read "Videos"... :96- :96-

What he ^^ said!  :30-

I was  going to post about the second video that has Clip drinking beer at the bar and the beer just dropping through him to the floor  :9- :154-, but there were at least a half dozen more videos by then, so I threw in the towel!  :5- :127-

The Clip is dead.  :112- Long live the Clip.  :97- :97-

Dam, now I have to put up with him on youtube.  Thanks for the posts Joey.

W

Is there a Vista sucks video. i'd like to see one of those.
Hasta la Vista baby.

I miss the days of that good old clip.   I used to teach that to 35 college students at a time and it was quite fun - that annoying noise that it made too - dink dink

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I liked the cat. I would move him off the Word window to a corner of the screen and play with him while working.  :31-  You could right-click on the character and select "animate" to get a random animation, and the cat had some cute ones. Of course, when I actually needed help I would turn the assistant off so that I could get to the REAL help index! :72- :72-

Farewell Clippy: What's Happening to the Infamous Office Assistant in Office XP
Clippy launches a "campaign" to save his job.


Microsoft Office Web Site

REDMOND, Wash., April 11, 2001 — Whether you love him or you hate him, say farewell to Clippy automatically popping up on your screen.

Clippy is the little paperclip with the soulful eyes and the Groucho eyebrows. The electronic ham who politely offers hints for using Microsoft Office software.

But, after four years on-screen, Clippy will lose his starring role when Microsoft Office XP debuts on May 31. Clippy, the Office Assistant introduced in Office 97, has been demoted in Office XP. The wiry little assistant is turned off by default in Office XP, but diehard supporters can turn Clippy back on if they miss him.

"Office XP is so easy to use that Clippy is no longer necessary, or useful," explained Lisa Gurry, a Microsoft product manager. "With new features like smart tags and Task Panes, Office XP enables people to get more out of the product than ever before. These new simplicity and ease-of-use improvements really make Clippy obsolete," she said.

"He's quite down in the dumps," Gurry joked. "He has even started his own campaign to try to get his old job back, or find a new one."


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Microsoft Clippy, RIP: 1997 - 2007

by Darren Murph, posted Feb 9th 2007 at 3:26PM
Not too long after MobileESPN breathed new life, now we've got the unfortunate duty of informing the world that Microsoft finally axed the most annoying aspect of Office has decided to leave "Clippy" behind in Office 2007.

We suspected something was brewing when the iconic figure started donning a 3D skirt in Japan, but a brief interview with Office's group program manager revealed that the clip is indeed dead. While it had been fading for awhile due to an apparent lack of mass fanfare, and was even turned off by default in Office 2003, it seems that Clippy fans will be forced to stick with now-antiquated versions of the Office suite in order to keep their darling on screen.

But don't fret too much, as the countdown until someone crafts a freeware app re-instilling a Clippy rendition into Office begins... now.

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