A Brief History Of The 'LA Clippies' Joke

A Brief History Of The 'LA Clippies' Joke
BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer smiles during the Microsoft Shareholders Annual Meeting November 19, 2013 in Bellevue, Washington. Bellevue, Washington. The meeting was the last for Steve Ballmer as CEO, of which there have only been two in Microsoft's history. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)
BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer smiles during the Microsoft Shareholders Annual Meeting November 19, 2013 in Bellevue, Washington. Bellevue, Washington. The meeting was the last for Steve Ballmer as CEO, of which there have only been two in Microsoft's history. (Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to buy the Los Angeles Clippers for a whopping $2 billion, and everyone is making the exact same joke.

You see, the inventor of the Microsoft Office paperclip assistant Clippy wants to buy the Los Angeles Clippers. Get it? This woman does:

And so does this guy:

SiriusXM certainly gets it:

And Pete won't let a good Clippy joke get by him:

LOL, good one Gary.

ROFL, Jacob.

"Clippy" the notoriously awful Microsoft Word feature, sounds a lot like "The Clippers". Feels like there's a joke in there... I dunno.

— Jacob Wolman (@jwolman) May 30, 2014

Even our lovable boss, Emily, got in on the joke.

L.A. Clippers --->> L.A. Clippies! pic.twitter.com/Iua9Xl4oSY

— Emily Peck (@EmilyRPeck) May 30, 2014

But then, people started to notice that there were a lot of Clippy jokes out there...

...and the Clippy jokes got snippy.

Suddenly, people were calling for Twitter reform.

Threats ensued.

The government decided to intervene.

And we all realized we'd been laughing at this joke for too long.

Far too long.

We wanted to believe it was over, but it was not.

Please Twitter, we beg of you: Let it go.

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