Well, it's been a total failure

Robert Clipsham robert at octarineparrot.com
Mon Sep 13 13:33:27 PDT 2010


On 13/09/10 21:43, Justin Johansson wrote:
> He he.
>
> Of course "SideKick" itself was some very popular TSR
> utility wasn't it? (But you didn't mean that?)
> For the young people here, TSR is Terminate and Stay Resident,
> an artifact of DOS 640KB days. No doubt see Wikipedia for more.
> Oh dear. :-)
>
> But Clippy? The only Clippy I know (and hated) it that
> stupid yesteryear Word popup. You meant that thing?
>
> - Justin

At some point during my childhood I acquired the nickname Clippy, it's 
followed me ever since. Fortunately very few people I know know the 
nickname commonly associated with that wretched paper clip, so it never 
causes too much dismay.

-- 
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/


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