Xref: utzoo comp.misc:7823 comp.text.desktop:1039 rec.music.misc:38609 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!claris!wombat From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text.desktop,rec.music.misc Subject: Re: What song contains the phrase "WYSIWYG"? Keywords: armload, bankrupt, Quantico, thiocyanate Message-ID: Date: 29 Dec 89 02:44:45 GMT References: <351@fwi.uva.nl> <1TvfrT#4xr7gM=eric@snark.uu.net> <3023@hp-sdd.hp.com> Sender: wombat@claris.com Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 26 In-reply-to: paul@hp-sdd.hp.com's message of 26 Dec 89 06:17:27 GMT Subversive: strategic In article <3023@hp-sdd.hp.com> paul@hp-sdd.hp.com (Paul K Johnson) writes: > What you see, is what you get, > the best thing yet. > Can't pull out any more at the moment. :-( That sounds quite a bit like a line out of _Jesus Christ Superstar_, from the song "The Temple". In context: Take your pick from the finest wine, Lay your bets on this bird of mine, What you see is what you get, No one's been disappointed yet, Don't be scared, give me a try, there is nothing you can't buy... ... but this is probably just a tangent that no one else had in mine. Personally, I think that the phrase WYSIWYG is much older than any of this... while Flip Wilson *did* popularize it as Geraldine, I think it antedates him, simply as a consumer catch-phrase, like dime-a-dozen or "the whole 9 yards". Scott Lindsey |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air Claris Corp. | About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or Dead.