How to make a text clipping of a URL?

Normally, if you select some text and drag it to the desktop, it makes a little clipping file, which you can open and copy easily. But if the selected text is a URL, with "http" in front it it, the dragged text is turned into a ".webloc" file which, when double-clicked, opens a web page. Does anyone know if there's a way to force a piece of text that is a URL to become a clipping when dragged to the desktop, rather than a webloc file?

If you are using Safari you can select the URl then go the services under the Safari menu at the menu bar, scroll down and select Text Edit and then select New Window Containing Selection and the URL will be saved as a Text Edit file completely intact, nothing to add. Takes about 2 seconds.
Well, yes, but then I'm back where I started. I don't want a great big TextEdit document just to hold a few words of text that I want to have easily available for copy/paste. I want a text clipping, which is (1) small and (2) easy to use: just double-click it and press cmd-C (no need to select anything, in fact you can't), then paste wherever desired. Interesting that this procedure creates a new TextEdit .txt file, even though I have it set in Preferences to make new files .rtf.
Anyway, it seems there's no way to do what I wanted to do. You get a text clipping (".textClipping") file when you drag selected text to the desktop, and apparently when the Finder sees the text has "http://" at the beginning, it assumes you want a .webloc, and makes that; it's not a function of whether the text is dragged from a browser or another app, it's just what the Finder sees in it. So ClipEdit is the solution; it can create a text clipping as a new document, with whatever you want in it. I also put the URL I want to use often (i.e. put into documents, not use as in go to that address) into iSnip, which unfortunately seems to have ceased development.
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