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From: tshaynes@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Timmy)
Subject: Re: GIF?
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In article <3cnk68$4nf@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>,
sam wood <sjw@saucer.cc.umr.edu> wrote:
>Timmy (tshaynes@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>: About 4 years ago, I saw this .GIF of 'Bob', the guy who invented the 
>: .GIF format.  The .GIF of Bob was in a new encoding style, and had text
>: scrolling through it.  The text briefly described the new features of this
>: encoding sytle.  At the end, it said something to the effect of:
>: "And, yes, it's pronouned `jif'".  That settled it for me and my friends.
>
>me and my friends saw this too.. it's distributed with C-Show... Since it
>was compu$erve, we pronounce it Gif not jif...

Huh?  You're saying that you had proper instruction in the correct 
prononciation of 'jif', but you refuse to use it?  That's almost worse than
ignorance!  Heretic!!  ;)

Tim
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