![]() POUNDSTONE: So he's an animated character that you didn't like? Is this a business grave or a personal grave? PROVENZA: It looks like you're digging a grave. Do you want to learn how to play baseball? Maybe I could help you with that? How can we focus their rage? How about if just in the middle of doing something, an animated paperclip pops up on the screen and says: Can I help you? What are you doing? Oh, can I see?įELBER: Geez, there's a lot of trees out here.įELBER: I don't think we're anywhere near Redmond anymore.įELBER: What are you digging? What are you digging? Can I help you dig?įELBER: Oh, you got a baseball bat. SAGAL: One day the engineers at Microsoft said, you know, the people using our products, they're frustrated, they're angry, but they're not insane with rage. Others pointed to his even more angry, 1999 memo, titled simply, Clippy Must Die.ĪDAM FELBER: I've seen that video of them putting Clippy in a car. Gates said, quote: This site is so slow, it is unusable. In it, Gates complains at great length, with the most bitter frustration and anger - much like any of his customers - about his experience trying to use the Microsoft website to download software. SAGAL: But on the occasion of his departure, some people found this 2003 email it was revealed in some court documents from the antitrust case. They will still be an implacable force for evil. SAGAL: Gates' departure from the software behemoth is not expected to result in any huge changes at Microsoft. He's now going to go try to make something of his life. SAGAL: This week, more than 30 years after he founded Microsoft, Bill Gates officially turns in his badge and cleans out his cubicle. In fact, this week, the author of the email got so frustrated, he quit Microsoft completely. It was describing the writer's experience using Microsoft Windows. SAGAL: According to MacDailyNews, those were just some of the highlights from a long flame email a couple of years back. SAGAL: All right, here's your first quote. If you correctly identify or explain two of them, you win our prize. You're going to play Who's Carl This Time? Carl Kasell, once again, will read three quotes from the week's news. ![]() SAGAL: Molly, it's nice to have you with us. SAGAL: So the ski season is finally over. SAGAL: Hi, you're on WAIT WAIT.DON'T TELL ME.ĮWING: I'm Molly Ewing, and I'm calling from Denver. It happened during a show we taped in Seattle in June of 2008 with panelists Paula Poundstone, Paul Provenza and Adam Felber. KASELL: And we begin with the single most nominated WAIT, WAIT moment. You get to hear the stuff you like best we get to take the week off. SAGAL: We asked you all to submit your favorite WAIT, WAIT moments for the last few years. This week you, the listener, get to produce our show, although you are limited by your raw materials, mainly us. Listen, for many years now this show has completely been ignoring our listeners' tastes, preferences and good judgment, and frankly it's worked out pretty well. And here's your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal. CARL KASELL: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT.DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR news quiz.
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