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Heh, classic!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

He is so annoying

"you appear to be writing a letter, would youy like some help?"

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sturmsoft.com/Writing/Images/AssistedSuicide.gif

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

Seeing as Trayce beat me to that one,
http://www.seabass7.com/img/ImageUploads/paperclip8WEB.jpg

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

heh. i rather like him. i kinda feel sorry for him, unwitting tool of the evil microsoft empire that he is. put it this way: he is by no means the most annoying thing about fucking-bastard word and FUCKING-BASTARD excel.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/srac/images/assistantsearch.gif

..yes i'd like to turn you the fuck off,,come on get off my screen

now

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Which is worse - the paperclip, that stupid lion/panther thing, or the little Einstein?

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

on office X for the mac you get a little mac classic, a couple of robots and ... something else, maybe a cat. the robot cries and self-destructs when you turn it off. i find this heartbreaking.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Einstein just goes off and works on the Grand Unification Theory or something. I used to have him when I could change it... I should try again!

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, you can have a cat, a dog (Power Pup), Einstein or Shakespeare. But it's disabled on my system! Waaahhhh!

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

(Now why I can't have an obsequious Butler I don't understand.)

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

AskJeeves have probably copyrighted the idea.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was going to be a thread about treatment of old folks in the NHS.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

(sorry, still cross about the documentary on telly last night)

The French have THE BEST WORD EVER for paperclips.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

TROMBONES!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I love that.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.windowatch.com/image1.gif

would you like me to do a tightly coiled shit on your work?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

'Scribble' is the coolest

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

scribble?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

What is the French word for paperclips?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

It's not really trombones is it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Indeed it is.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

So what's the French word for trombones?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

paperclips

ooooo

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

psyche!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 21 July 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

scribble the cat (made out of stationary)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

the french word for trombones is also trombones. I have no idea why paperclips are called trombones (wait, I guess it's because they're shaped slightly like trombones)

― peter in montreal (spaces are allowed), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Why are staples called agrafes?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

agrafes is staples spelled backwards.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Which is worse - the paperclip, that stupid lion/panther thing, or the little Einstein?

-- Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (masonicboo...) (webmail), July 21st, 2005 5:18 AM. (kate) (later)

i dont know what the lion/panther thing is but the kitty rules when he purrs and when he puts his painty paws on the screen to get your attention. RULES. plus, if you have the misfortune to be at work with a comp that cant access the internet then that cat fast becomes a pretty damn interesting part of your day.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Can you not access the internet then?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Funny that I was able to write letters for twenty years BEFORE the invention of the talking paperclip. Thanks to Microsoft for making a simple activity become unneccessarily complicated and annoying!

French eggs are so tasty because you can never get un oeuf.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

and french fish is killer

― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

A little-used Norwegian slang term for trombone translates as "wank-paperclip".

― OleM (OleM), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

So in France, what do they call a French horn?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

And what do they call swiss cheese in switzerland?
http://re2.mm-a1.yimg.com/image/383863670

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 21 July 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

http://web.jet.es/unepelde/imgs/pf_kburger.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

a little mac classic

yeah, i wonder if they had to pay any license fees to Berke Breathed for using his Banana Jr 6000 as a character.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

the first time someone asks you about paperclips in french is kind of confusing.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

the office manager for the paris symphony orchestra must have a hell of a time.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Swordfish Paperclips doesn't have the same ring to it.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 July 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

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