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From: mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What song contains the phrase "WYSIWYG"?
Message-ID: <496@nixba.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 89 13:42:12 GMT
References: <351@fwi.uva.nl>
Reply-To: mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons)
Organization: Nixdorf Computer GSfBA, Nuremberg, West Germany
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In article <351@fwi.uva.nl> freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) writes:
>I know that WYSIWYG means that what you see on the screen is what
>you'll get on paper when you print it.  I know that it is an
>abbreviation of the phrase "what you see is what you get".  I know (?)
>that this phrase comes from some popular song.

Actually, I don't think so.  The phrase was one of these fad sayings in the
States (like "where's the beef"?) and was a phrase that was always uttered
by the American comedian Flip Wilson in his "Geraldine" persona (late 1960's
to early '70's).

Peace,
  Mike

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