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MearWolf — Feb 9th 2007 3:32PM

I will mourn you clippy, however anoying you were, we still loved you

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kudos — Feb 9th 2007 3:36PM

rip

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Arno — Feb 9th 2007 3:37PM

Good riddens!

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kaybee — Feb 9th 2007 3:38PM

That's the second death in 2 days of a person or a thing on my patented "Incredibly Annoying People/Things List" ; I guess it has more power than I thought.

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peterjon — Feb 9th 2007 3:40PM

oooooooooooo noooooooooooooooooo
you killed clippy you basters
you will pay for this.

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Benjamin — Feb 9th 2007 3:42PM

THEY KILLED KENNY! CLIPPY!
Oh goodness, he was only what, ten years old?how sad...I never really knew him because i replaced him with the wizard helper...oh well. I'm sure some sadistic programmer will be sure to dream up a new clippy you can put in, with control over what it says.
RESSURECT CLIPPY!
Boo hoo, oh hoho , that little guy was like the annoying little brother I wish i never had. Of only Microsoft brought him in Vista....wait is he in Vista?
idk
*sniffle*

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Jack — Feb 9th 2007 3:42PM

This is a worthless article. Who cares.

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DooM — Feb 9th 2007 3:44PM

Oh NOES!!1

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jschmier — Feb 9th 2007 3:47PM

Clippy will always live on in my favorite version of Windows.

http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/

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catalyst — Feb 9th 2007 3:47PM

Your HTML in the article breaks the link to the Clippy 3D skirt article. "

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tc — Feb 9th 2007 3:49PM

Why don't they use Dwight Schrute's floating head instead? That would be so much more awesome.

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v_dogg — Feb 9th 2007 3:54PM

amen to that. Clippy Sxucks. i hated him the day i saw him

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eric.hundman — Feb 9th 2007 3:51PM

THANK JEEBUS. That little bastard almost singlehandedly made me switch to Macs back in the day.

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Cowboy Bob — Feb 9th 2007 3:52PM

w00t!

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catalyst — Feb 9th 2007 3:53PM

Apparently putting a < symbol breaks things here. I said:

Your HTML in the article breaks the link to the Clippy 3D skirt article. "
It's here:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/microsofts-clippy-putting-on-a-3d-skirt-in-japan/

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Jeff — Feb 9th 2007 3:58PM

I wouldn't mind Clippy much if he was a Japanese girl in a skirt.

Maybe MS should think about importing the Japanese Office to America.

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superpixel — Feb 9th 2007 4:04PM

now if they could kill those damn yellow balloons. I LIKE my unused desktop icons, thank you.
accept/deny?

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RomeoDude — Feb 9th 2007 4:04PM

That just decided it..... I'm not buying Office 2007. Of all the Office Assistants, why MURDER Clippit (that was his name in Office XP), he was a SIMPLE HELPLESS PAPER CLIP!!!

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paul34 — Feb 9th 2007 4:10PM

ohh clippy... I think this sums it up:

http://www.holylemon.com/PaperClip.html

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cire — Feb 9th 2007 4:18PM

why!!!! For god sake no!!! You MS bastards!!! How could you!!

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T-Will — Feb 9th 2007 4:23PM

If only Windows RG had gone retail I'm sure it would've been a hit...at least we still have our Clippy there. :-(

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Binder Clip — Feb 9th 2007 4:33PM

From this day forward every fiber of my being, every bone in my body, every word I speak will be dedicated to making MS pay for killing clippy.

It may not be today, it may not be tommorrow, it may not be next year, but rest assurred Microsoft YOU WILL PAY, and pay dearly!!

Just Kidding - Good Riddance...

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iptydafu — Feb 9th 2007 4:33PM

I hope the bastard caught rectal-cancer of the mouth and died choking. Burn in hell, Clippy, burn.

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Ransom — Feb 9th 2007 4:36PM

oh glorious day!!

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Phlip — Feb 9th 2007 4:46PM

I will never forget the day my colleague returned to his computer to find his Clippy with a dialog balloon saying, "Die, you gravy sucking pig!"

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John B — Feb 9th 2007 4:56PM

Clippy was so fu*king stupid. I remember writing my 250+ page manual for a training seminar that I was doing. (In irony of ironies, it was a class for using Solaris, but I dguress..)

I was on page 80 describing how to perform a certain function. So, I typed, "To do {such-and-such}:" and that god-damned hellspawn popped up.

"It looks like you're writing a letter!"

WHAT THE...??! I'm on page 80, you stupid sh*t! How the hell could it POSSIBLY look like I'm writing a letter?!!

Good riddance, and may the morons who thought that it was a good idea to introduce Clippy get a boil on their collective asses.

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Craig — Feb 9th 2007 4:58PM

actually... his name is clippit, not clippy (in Office 2003). c'mon!

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Jason Shellen — Feb 9th 2007 5:11PM

He's a hard guy to kill they already had a whole campaign around this back in Spring 2001:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/apr01/04-11clippy.mspx

http://www.shellen.com/2001/04/microsoft-has-sense-of-humor-after-all.asp

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Rck — Feb 9th 2007 5:15PM

Buh Bye to the Jar-Jar Binks of Redmond

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scooter — Feb 9th 2007 5:18PM

I'll miss you... ):

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tiuk — Feb 9th 2007 5:21PM

RIP? Hardly. I hope it rots in eternal suffering. Disabling it was always the first thing I'd do after installing office.

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Joe — Feb 9th 2007 5:22PM

The funniest thing i ever saw was a picture of a guy writing a suicide note on Microsoft Office and Clippy popping up and saying "So I see you've decided to kill yourself?"

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darter9000 — Feb 9th 2007 5:26PM

Oh wow, I never thought MSFT would ever get rid of their, less than revered, spokes-thingy.

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AppleJack — Feb 9th 2007 5:50PM

"Bring back that loving feeling
Oh, that loving feeling
Bring back that loving feeling
Now it's gone...gone...gone...
And I can't go on...
No-oh-oh..."

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Waruwaru — Feb 9th 2007 6:08PM

Make your own clippy
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/agent.mspx

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wireless buddy — Feb 9th 2007 6:33PM

Why couldn't they kill the stupid puzzle. I love Clippy! He's like my little buddy when I am doing reports in Word or when I am emailing/using calendar in Outlook!

I ♥ Clippy.

I Hate Microsoft.

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GameLifeShow — Feb 9th 2007 7:07PM

He isn't really dead yet. He still lives in Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac. Now if they kill him off in the next version for the Mac, then he will be really dead, but he's on his last leg of his life right now.

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Leo Bloom — Feb 9th 2007 7:33PM

I hope they bent Clippy back and forth till he broke in two. I'm all for taking my frustrations on the programing since clubbing the actual programer is illegal...

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Alan McSwain — Feb 9th 2007 7:54PM

Oh no, Clippy. You don't get off that easy.
I'm not with you yet! You hear! This ain't over by a long shot!

I will have my revenge. I'm here in Redmond, WA. now. They must have buried you around here someplace and buddy, I'm packin a full bladder.

Note to self: Must adjust meds.

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BobM — Feb 9th 2007 8:12PM

Clippy is not dead! He's been reborn as the Form Assistant in Dynamics CRM. Just as useless, but he's more persistent now. He won't let you hide him.

Paybacks baby!

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Megan — Feb 9th 2007 8:39PM

Why kill off Clippy? He was amusing. And sorta helpful. Eh, at least as far as I can remember...Oh well. I'm too poor to buy the newest office.

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Blake — Feb 9th 2007 8:40PM

Praise the Gods.

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sean — Feb 9th 2007 9:33PM

First Anna Nicole Smith and NOW CLIPPY?!?!?!!? I give up. Life is just too bleak now.

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Evan A Martin — Feb 9th 2007 10:18PM

Dam you Microsoft I WANT CILPPY,

I will stay with Office 2003 until the end I will never upgrade NEVER!!!!

I hope Bill Gates is reading this, We want CILPPY We want CILPPY We want CILPPY We want CILPPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does the Mac version of Office have Cilppy?

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kevan — Feb 10th 2007 12:11AM

Oh man. I created Clippy those many years ago. He has opened many doors for me even though he annoyed hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis. People knew who he was and that is what counted. I actully got trickles of fan mail over the years . . .

You know they told us he was gone when XP came out too. He was just hidden.

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fred kirby — Feb 10th 2007 5:20AM

rip

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Mark Smith — Feb 10th 2007 12:05PM

Finally! A reason to buy Office 2007! Up until now I was stumped in my search for a reason to upgrade to either Vista or Office 2007.

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mario — Feb 10th 2007 2:52PM

I've missed the genius one for years...

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idiotproofwebsite.com — Feb 10th 2007 8:36PM

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

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David — Feb 11th 2007 12:17PM

I heard that he ran off with that filmstrip dude from AMC movies.