In Praise of Clippy

vaaaska

I think that Clippy needs his/her very own thread.

vaaaska

Clippy visited me today and told me that he's very said y'all did not praise him. Not a single one of you. Y'all should be very much ashamed of yourselves.

Clippy claims he might go on strike and stop providing y'all with expert help and useful tips.

I can't believe you guys...I really can't...

Weedpacket

I praised him the other day, honest I did.
Here - I've even got a link to prove it.

Sxooter

That's seriously pretty funny. Saved the gif to pass around.

vaaaska

Clippy is funny guy. Y'all should worship now. I'm baffled by this dissent.

csn

Heh, that should be a loadable module for vi that you can annoy users with.

Sxooter

OMFG csn, I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone did it now.

I remember back in the day, there was this guy who made silly animations on it, and one of them was an animation of a "demo" given at a user's group meeting. It had a window with A icon (a big letter A for an icon) and a new application. There these series of applications called virus-x, screen-x etc... written by the same bloke. virus-x was a pretty good anti-virus program, and screen-x would let you run multiple desktops (we're talking 1989 or so here, long time ago).

One of the "fake" applications in this animation was one called "keyboard-x" that randomly remapped all the keys on your keyboard every 30 seconds.

You can guess what the author of virus-x and screen-x wrote a few weeks later...

csn

Sxooter wrote:
One of the "fake" applications in this animation was one called "keyboard-x" that randomly remapped all the keys on your keyboard every 30 seconds.

That'd surely put one on the road to madness!

Hey, where's the feature request form for mysql? They might actually implement the Clippy idea. 😉

Weedpacket

Go on, get happy
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