Hi, I’m Clippy!

The “Clippy” Microsoft Should Have Invented
It looks like you’re writing total B.S. Would you like me to turn on ALL CAPS and turn off spell check?

“BUT ITS’ GRAYED OUT I CANT CLICK IT!!!!!!!!”

Take a breath. Whatever it is probably won’t matter to you next week.

Everyone calls the infernal thing that Microsoft introduced in Office 97 “Clippy” but its real name is Clippit — and we even know who to thank/blame for the look (but certainly not the idea behind it): Seattle illustrator Kevan Atteberry …and even he calls it Clippy.

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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.


Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!

Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc

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