Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wshb!michaelb
From: michaelb@wshb.UUCP ( WSHB employee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What song contains the phrase "WYSIWYG"?
Summary: Laugh-in
Message-ID: <381@wshb.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 89 14:12:04 GMT
References: <351@fwi.uva.nl> <496@nixba.UUCP>
Organization: WSHB, Christian Science Mon. Synd., Cypress Creek, SC
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> > ............................... I know that it is an
> >abbreviation of the phrase "what you see is what you get".
> 
>  ................. The phrase was one of these fad sayings in the
>  .... 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).
> 

Flip Wilson it was. The character was Geraldine. It became popular during
the second season of Laugh-in. (1966?)

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