Talk:Talking Moose

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Talking Moose citations

I'm a "Talking Moose" advocate, it being a program I used to introduce new people to computers who were fearful. An important part of what it was doing was reflecting stray thoughts going through the mind of the new computer user. (And many users were using a computer for the first time.) The dopey voice still brings a smile. It would be nice if someone had a quote from a reviewer about the psychological effect.

1) In general, the article needs more citations. I realize from my experience that much of the article is true (or part of popular legend), but that's not the Wiki way. So I've added a citation tag.

2) ~~In the Family Guy quotation that Stewie is referencing Talking Moose or just the Mac speech function.~~ Question has been answered, it isn't, and anonymous IP 143.92.1.33 correctly removed it.

3) The relationship between Talking Moose voice, cartoon, and types of quips, and Bullwinkle seem close. Was there any comment about this? Is this the reason that the animation changed to one looking less like Bullwinkle?

4) Without being at all sure, I was under the impression that Clippy was much later, and that there was some other primary factor in its creation. Note that Office Assistant does not mention Talking Moose. There's a story here, because the quote in the Office Assistant article from Smithsonian wasn't just the opinion outside Microsoft. The reason for it failing was precisely because it had a different purpose than Talking Moose.

5) I've changed the sentence calling Talking Moose "distressingly cheap humor", because that's quite subjective.

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 13:24, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"In general, the article needs more citations. I realize from my experience that much of the article is true (or part of popular legend), but that's not the Wiki way. So I've added a citation tag." Agreed 94.169.34.2 (talk) 19:49, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Being original research, this can't go in the article, but when I asked about a relation to Bullwinkle, Steve Halls maintained plausible deniability. 96.52.203.161 (talk) 18:58, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any citation for the claim that Steve Halls helped to "refine" the Macintalk software itself? 71.252.168.126 (talk) 01:10, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]