Hello, Army of Clippys. (Clippies?)
Added 2026-01-08 12:32:41 +0000 UTCIf a single clippy is Clippy, is it two Clippys or two Clippies?
Also, I have now found that every member of my family loves cat grooming videos. And now Ursa Minor really wants a foam cannon for our pressure washer.
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Which is also how OpenAI most frequently gets sued
Jesse Thompson
2026-01-09 05:39:49 +0000 UTCCellular telephony device mayhaps
Jesse Thompson
2026-01-09 05:39:13 +0000 UTCOn topic: I have a foam cannon that came with my pressure washer and it's quite useful. Off topic: Today's Grandiloquent Word of the Day might be of interest to the readers here: Turophile [TYOOR-oh-fahyl] (n.) - A cheese connoisseur; a cheese fancier. - Someone who loves cheese. From Greek (urós) (cheese) + -phile Used in a sentence: “Provided it be well and truly made there is really, for the confirmed turophile, no such thing as a bad cheese. A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.” - Clifton Fadiman
JCfromNC
2026-01-09 03:45:29 +0000 UTCGranted, I'm not sure exactly where Jill lives these days, but I had the impression it was in the UK somewhere. Which is hardly a privacy-friendly space these days, either electronic or physical privacy
Allan
2026-01-09 02:17:17 +0000 UTCWe’ll have to get her down the Technology Connection rabbit hole. He has 3 hour long videos on how to properly use a dishwasher.
Sandra OShields
2026-01-09 01:48:48 +0000 UTCI’m glad you went down the Louis Rossman rabbit hole. Business Reform is a new one I’ve started watching. He focuses on privacy issues. Just be glad you live outside the realm of FLOCK cameras.
Sandra OShields
2026-01-09 01:47:10 +0000 UTCThe Girl With the Dogs (and her long-form Girl With The Dogs 2) youtube channel is a must to subscribe, particularly the cat grooms. My favorite Clippy meme is, "It looks like you're writing unsubstantiated nonsense. Would you like to turn on ALL CAPS?"
Chromejob
2026-01-09 01:42:03 +0000 UTCYou know Lego is a self plural too. Supposedly. But I don’t think it’ll ever catch on.
Sandra OShields
2026-01-09 01:41:51 +0000 UTCI have a foam canon for my pressure washer. Excellent investment.
Sandra OShields
2026-01-09 01:40:42 +0000 UTCNow I'm curious: what happened to your dishwasher?
Martijn Coppoolse
2026-01-08 21:42:27 +0000 UTCMy favorite Clippy meme is a photograph showing someone doing repairs to their house, including that framed thing with glass in it, and a paper cutout of Clippy is held up with the text “It looks like you’re installing Windows. Would you like some help with that?”
Cyn Virtue
2026-01-08 18:06:14 +0000 UTC"Ursa Minor really wants a foam cannon for our pressure washer" I am envisioning a foam covered Jill at unexpected moments.
ClassicsLover
2026-01-08 18:03:32 +0000 UTC"Avatars Clippy"?
Brenton Clark
2026-01-08 15:37:01 +0000 UTCI saw a Clippy meme that said: “I see that you’re trying to fix government with more government. What are you, stupid?” Good memories.
Gregory Horwitz
2026-01-08 14:48:07 +0000 UTCLove Louis Rossman. Don't watch him much but I love what he stands for.
shift shift
2026-01-08 14:27:59 +0000 UTCComputer, game console, streaming TV or add-on. That's it, nothing else in your house has reason to know what the Internet is.
shadowscribble
2026-01-08 14:26:52 +0000 UTCDo the cats love cat grooming videos?
Anders
2026-01-08 14:16:51 +0000 UTCI feel like the question that truly must be answered for proper pluralization of "Clippy" is whether Clippy has individual identity. 🤔 Is each one a unique talking paperclip who just happens to also be named Clippy? Are they all just branches of the same Clippy? Does Clippy have a soul??? 😱 (But yeah, unless Microsoft (or a related Clippy-creation authority) ever declared otherwise, it should technically be "Clippys", though I doubt there'd be much complaint either way. 😅) Separately, speaking of dishwasher madness, children, and the launching of foam... I've never had a dishwasher, but when I was very young (like, 2 or 3), my parents had one briefly. One day, though, my mom had set the dishwasher going and gone in another room; I was in/near the kitchen in my little baby bouncy contraption with our big hound dog keeping watch over me (apparently, he appointed himself as my guardian when they brought me home for the first time, so him babysitting me was common :p). After a short time, the dog went to where my mom was and insisted she comes with him. What she found upon doing so was me surrounded by a sea of foam, happily giggling "bubbles! 😍". Turns out Mom had used regular dish soap instead of dishwasher liquid. 😅 Even pre-WiFi, madness still laid within the dishwasher! 😲😂
Melita_H
2026-01-08 14:15:45 +0000 UTCMy favorite Clippy meme shows Clippy asking "It look like you're writing a suicide note. Would you like help with that?"
Leo
2026-01-08 14:08:55 +0000 UTCWell, who DOESN'T want a foam cannon for their pressure washer?
Ann Brookens
2026-01-08 14:03:28 +0000 UTCProbably nothing nefarious... as long as you don't connect it to wifi, that is...
Melita_H
2026-01-08 13:49:48 +0000 UTCClippii, like the Julii perhaps? Ave Caesar, we who are about to Clip salute you! ;)
Ed
2026-01-08 13:45:04 +0000 UTCI think since Clippy is its proper name, the plural is Clippys. Like more than one Mary is Marys. Interesting on the use of the image in profile pics!
Elizabeth Claassen
2026-01-08 13:03:47 +0000 UTCIt could be a self plural, like sheep, or Lotus (there was an official press release from Lotus cars , many years ago, on the subject).
Paul Compton
2026-01-08 12:54:33 +0000 UTCNow I have a whole new rabbit hole to get lost in. 😅 BTW: Samsung sends me several notifications each week trying to update our agreement. The very act of clicking on them signifies (according to them) agreement.
Victoria L. Mellody
2026-01-08 12:44:21 +0000 UTCI have thought about changing some of my YouTube picture profiles to Clippy. The problem is I let my stove connect to wifi so I can watch my cookies bake and Alexa can turn on my oven for me. Ever since I did that I have gotten a terrible feeling whenever I want to rebel against furniture AI. They haven’t been working on mind control have they? Wow that sentence was hard to write for some reason.
Alex Taylor
2026-01-08 12:43:11 +0000 UTCWhat did the dishwasher do!
Katherine Trill
2026-01-08 12:41:55 +0000 UTCWho would have ever thought we would miss Clippy? 🫡
Daniel Buckberry-Biran
2026-01-08 12:39:54 +0000 UTCInteresting
BJ
2026-01-08 12:38:26 +0000 UTCOmg you watch Louis rossmann too??
Ioana Avram
2026-01-08 12:37:05 +0000 UTC
