Clippy Returns - Kill It With Fire!

[Aynge]

Why the F would Microsoft bring this shit back? Did anybody like him? All the rage is coming back to me now. So many years I had to suffer before they pulled him, and now...

Son of a bitch.

http://kotaku.com/#!5797297/microsoft...

[Phil]

Turn it off. Simple operation, no crazy vibe.

[Aynge]

I couldn't shut him off back then. I thought he was gone for good.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Man, I hated Clippy. Some of the other avatars were okay, for awhile, until the unsolicited advice drove me up a wall.

[~Geektastic~]

So let me get this straight, we can kill Bin Laden but we can't get rid of Clippy? What are we coming to...

[Mary]

I always liked the kitty

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Me, too, Mary, but the disembodied hand with the painted fingernails that appeared to pet the kitty creeped me out.

[Sally, la reina]

Oh, Clippy was super fun during my senior year of college, when I wrote many papers on Othello, gender theory, and Hogarth.

[janine]

i used to like clippy, but i was a teen then.

[Stina]

I always liked Clippy... but then, I come from a family where cats are named Blacky or (no shit) Orange Cat and the pet fish are named Swimmy.

[Sally, la reina]

No sarcasm. I would honestly sit there and click "animate" to watch Clippy do backflips while I thought.
This was well before I had GR to suck my time, you know.

[~Geektastic~]

Kristina wrote: "I always liked Clippy... but then, I come from a family where cats are named Blacky or (no shit) Orange Cat and the pet fish are named Swimmy."

You too? One of our cats was just called Fat Cat. My sister had one called Meow Meow. We are a creative bunch.

[Sally, la reina]

I call Marla Singer Meow Meow! Sometimes Meowzipan.

[Phil]

Kristina wrote: "I always liked Clippy... but then, I come from a family where cats are named Blacky or (no shit) Orange Cat and the pet fish are named Swimmy."

Ha! Our fish is named Swimmy! And our hamster is Hamsty.

[Carol]

I have White Kitty, tafka fat cat. The vet called him Whitey once.
I had to resist the strong urge to call Madeline Orange Cat.

[Stina]

Sally wrote: "No sarcasm. I would honestly sit there and click "animate" to watch Clippy do backflips while I thought.
This was well before I had GR to suck my time, you know."

Exactly! He would do a backflip or tap on your screen or something utterly ridiculous like faxing something. It was so weird! I found all sorts of ways to procrastinate in college and Clippy (and the dog and the cat and the Einstein, but never that hippy-assed Mother Earth) helped.

I like that other TCers are as awesome at naming animals as my family is. For the record, my immediate family always did a pretty good job. My grandpa and uncle are horrible... for a while, there was a dog named Black Pup.

[janine]

i called a cat goldilocks. i even gave my own name to a cat. we also have a goat named donkey, one named anders (different), and had one named mushroom.

[Mary]

As a child, I had a dog, a female who's name was boy.
Go figure

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

My cats had names but I didn't use them. I just called them both Kitty. All of my friends' dogs I call Puppy, even if they're 16 years old and terminally ill.

[Lyzzibug ~Still Breathing~]

My grandmother had a Yorkie she named boy. He was a boy. I had a cat growing up I named Ms. Kitty.

Loved to watch Clippy do his animations.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I loathed Clippy with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. I never had a kitty assistant. There's a puppy somewhere in my software, I think, still, when you do a hard drive search. Or maybe it's gone now. I don't use the search function much anymore because they changed it and I can't figure it out.

[Aynge]

I know it was irrational, but I always felt offended when automatic help popped up. What kind of moron doesn't know how to write a f*ckin' letter? Chances are if you don't, you probably don't know how to start a word processing program, either.

And what was worse was when it automatically "corrected" my grammar/spelling. It was almost always wrong. At least on my Mac, I could turn Spell Check off. Not so with MS Word. I don't know if they ever fixed that.

[Félix]

One of my cats is often called Brownie.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I had a cat named The Kitten. It happens...

And my last two cats, both black cats, were named Spooky (because he spooked easily), and Eddy, in honor of all the eerie Eddies of the world. And most especially Edward Gorey. :)

[Mary]

My son was given the task of naming one cat which he called Snow Coal- because of her white and gray markings.
For some reason we started calling her Snowplow.
Now it's just Plow. It seems to fit her.

[Mary]

[Jonathan]

Snowplow is really cute, Mary.

[Stina]

Clippy got a shout out on The Office tonight!

[Félix]

Snowplow.

[Janice]

Snowplow is a well cared for kitty from the looks of her.

When I was a kid, I brought home a cat and named him TeeJay. Shortly after he joined the family, I adopted a stray and he was named Spareribs, or Spribs for short. My sister acquired a cat named Sirloiness. My dad started calling TeeJay T-Bone. Poor kitties, all saddled with meat names.