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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
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Subject: Re: TTL Tina Turner Look WYGIWYS [Was: WYSIWYG Tools??]
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Date: 2 Jul 93 11:19:30 EDT
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thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) writes:
>In <20p106INN7fo@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>>In article <dvs.138.741249713@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de> dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) writes:
>>>>Does anyone know of any WYSIWYG word processors/Drawing tools ...
>>>                         ^^^^^^^
>>>What about saying it the other way round WYGIWYS (what you get is what you 
>>>see - like the song title) and then even shorter TTL (Tina Turner Look) ?
>>Yep, you certainly know the successors of WYSIWYG?
>>1st) WYSIWYMG -- most common form, what you see is what you might get
>>2nd) WYSIWING -- more seldom, what you see is what you never get
>3rd)
>YWNSAAYWNGAAAN -- you will not see anything and not get anything at all, never

Then, there's my favorite:

WYGIWYD -- what you get is what you deserve.