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From: sjw@saucer.cc.umr.edu (sam wood)
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Subject: Re: GIF?
Date: 14 Dec 1994 20:22:32 GMT
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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...

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