Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 20, 2009

ACK!! Not that annoying paper clip!

So THAT’S what happened to Clippit after Microsoft exiled him! Show no mercy, Brewster!

you could have just disabled it…

i love it!

Oh, man, I hate that dude! Water board him ‘til he rusts…

Poor Clippit gets no respect at all.

Classic strip today, Tim!

A student asked about Office 2007 and where the “helper” went. All the fun’s gone. I like the exploding robot.

Who is this “Clippet”? Someone please explain.

Clippet is a pop up character from Microsoft Office ‘03. There were about ten, but he was the default. They would sometimes appear if you clicked on help. Basically, he was fun, but rarely seen and, admittedly, useless.

rdh288 said, about 1 hour ago

“Clippet is a pop up character from Microsoft Office ‘03. …”

It predates Office 2003. Maybe Office 2000 or Office ‘98 ?

I used to teach computer courses, and for the macro programming classes I used to offer teaching them how to reprogram what clippit would say as a bonus.

Clippit you annoying nerd! I thought you were gone forever.

First thing I always did on new Microsoft Office installations was to get rid of “Clippy”, I couldn’t stand that stupid thing. I didn’t know that Microsoft got rid of it in later versions, as I switched to Open Office (free!) as soon as it was stable.

DF,could you teach us how to program Clippy to do weird things on our office computers?

I liked the robot. I didn’t find him useless, and I liked watching the poor thing explode (or otherwise be animated). I must admit that Clippit was truly annoying to me in all his versions.

Clippy has his own Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

The same paper clip jammed up ballot-counting machinery in Florida in 2018 — thus showing the danger of early release.