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From: sharon@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text.desktop,rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: What song contains the phrase "WYSIWYG"?
Message-ID: <9267@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 25 Dec 89 23:22:44 GMT
References: <351@fwi.uva.nl> <1TvfrT#4xr7gM=eric@snark.uu.net>
Reply-To: sharon@asylum.UUCP (Sharon Fisher)
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In article <1TvfrT#4xr7gM=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In <351@fwi.uva.nl> Freek Wiedijk wrote:
>>                                         I know that [WYSIWYG] is an
>> abbreviation of the phrase "what you see is what you get".  I know (?)
>> that this phrase comes from some popular song.
>
>I'm not dead sure, but I *think* the phrase occurred in a lyric which began
>thus:
>
>	If you want it / here it is, come and get it
>	But you better hurry 'cause it's going fast

No, there really is a song that may well be called "What you see is
what you get."  It was probably in the 70s and was done by a group
like, say, the O'Jays or Ohio Players or something.