A New Way to Meet Girls?

[alexxkay]

My dad gave me a T-shirt a while ago, swag from some trade show, that says on it "WYSIWYG". In the past few weeks two young women have stopped me as I was walking by, asked for an explanation, and seemed to think that the answer was pretty cool. If I wasn't already happily married, I would definitely invest in more shirts with obscure-yet-cool acronyms on them. Perhaps some of my Friends can use this knowledge :-)

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

galaneia's got a sweatshirt with the same message on it. She definitely gets asked about it a bunch. ;) From both genders...

I dunno

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

"WYSIWYG" is sort of cleverly applied to the wearer. It'd be harder to apply ASCII or BASIC or SNAFU into a conversation opener.

[hawkegirl.livejournal.com]

Can I join the ranks of young women and ask what it stands for?

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

What You See Is What You Get. (Wussywig!)

[hawkegirl.livejournal.com]

Ah, got it.

Odd shirt to give someone married to a blind person... ?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I've always heard it pronounced "wizzy-wig". Regional difference?

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

It's not like it was something he picked out special for me, it was just trade show swag, given to me 'cos it wouldn't fit him.

I have another such swag-shirt that I think of as the canonical example of Bad Marketing. It has a spiral of text on it, reading, "This is what we had in mind. Is this what you had in mind?" OK, points for being intriguing. But no indication of what company it is supposed to be advertising *for*. Or, in fact, what kind of product, or even what *industry*. I can only presume that it's tech-related, but I don't know beyond that...

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, people who have cause to pronounce it in the first place are already pretty far on the geekery scale, even before you factor in pronunciation.

Re: I dunno

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I always like to think so. :)

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

True. Of course, I almost never use it for its computer applications. I use it to mean that the miniature toy soldiers I have put on the tabletop are armed and equipped exactly the way they appear to be....