Like Peanut Butter

choosy website designers choose GIF.
April Winchell multimedia rocks. I filled my hard drive with that stuff one fine evening. It's so choice.

The odd couple doing “Your so vain.” It's official. Chris has way to much free time.

See Chuck…I told ya !!! Loser!! I really hate it when my friend Chuck pronounces it that way. We constantly argue about it! Ha!

Seeing as I don't pronounce my last name “jilman” there's no way I'll ever pronounce GIF “jif”. Oh and X-Files aside, the name Gillian bugs the hell out of me for similar reasons.

My feelings as usual - we will pronounce the words any way we want. And I repeat, there are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

How do you pronounce Gnome? G-nome, J-nome. How about Gila Monster? I'm getting all goofed-up.

Oops! I double clicked. Chris take my last two post away, please. Sorry

Hard G? Is that when you say GIF like “gift” but without the “t” on the end? Or is that when you say “Jif” like the peanut butter?
I am *so* not hooked on phonics right now! ;)

Where in the hell do you find this stuff, Chris?

hmmmm nuttin like some good pornagraphic “jif” with my jelly

Gif with a G as in Geek. Oh yeah I am hard as in hulkamaniac.mp3 brother! (does the hulkamaniac pose)No pants friday! Off with those pants!

A brief history with GIF format. Compuserve invented the format in 1987. In their graphic display program called CompuShow the FAQ states that “The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced 'JIF' was designed by CompuServe and the official specification released in June of 1987.” So its kinda confusing when the acronym was given and the G actually stands for a word with a hard G. Oh well its still no pants friday thats P as in *****

I'd given up trying to correct people on this one; even pointing them to URLs with C-Serve history, they didn't care.
Redemption!

Thank goodness someone had the good sense to educate the world on this one. I hate being wrong all the time.

hi chris your a cool guy
i like you
im ur fan of geeknest

Whew, for a second I thought I was saying it incorrectly and wouldn't be able to download those mp3s, turns out I was right. ::quickly clicks the link saying “jif” to himself::

is it guh if GIF or juh if JIF ie the ***** butter uhh ****** uhh oops
Chris u totally reek of gnome ness guh knownme gee kahnowm
**** now im going to have to spend a week trying to fix my vocabulary :-p

Um, I don't care if they did invent it, Compuserve is wrong. The G in GRAPHICAL is hard, so the G in GIF is hard.
Thank you. :)

I was about to say “like the peanut butter” then I read the title.
On another note, I'm doing the Love-in thing today:
http://www.buccho.com/archives/000147.html#000147
Chris, you were the reason to watch CFH. Most of the things you featured and the questions you answered were remedial to me but, as a support person, it gave me a new perspective on how to reach my remote clients and communicate things to them in layman terms. I thank you and look forward to meeting you at GD3.

Gentle reader,
Just because the “G” (pronounced “jee”) in Graphical is hard, this doesn't mean the “G” in .gif is hard. Giraffe, gyp, generic, etc… Got to go grab gnomedex gear gnow.

I don't care how it is pronounced, I just wish that I could get Leonard Nimoy's version of “Both Sides Now” out of my head!!!

I started out in the early nineties saying “jiff” and then over time (by 96 maybe) I switched to “giff”… I forgive myself, but I will be sad if U-R-L ever becomes “earl”… man that would suck. Saying a hard G seems to somehow wrangle an essence of Occam's razor. Why use a soft G, unless there was an explict reason?

until recently i had never heard “.gif” pronounced.
am i going to change my pronounciation?
not bloody likely.

Just because the inventors of the format can't spell doesn't mean I should give up all my years of training in english.
And to boot I'll be damned if I'm gonna be a walking advert for peanut butter. Not gonna happen.
Sorry but no, the answer is no. It is not jiffy pop either! Someone has to stand up to these fools!

Stop the press. to the best of my knowledge, gif stands for “Graphic Interchange Format” Now, adhering to the standard would say that GIF is in fact to be pronounced with a hard G.

you say tomato, I say tamato. Let's call the whole thing off!!!!!

Bah! I'll always say it with a “hard G”, no one is going to make me change muahaha!!!! unless of course, there's a load of money involved ;)

Yeahhoo, Yawhoo - big woop.
Shatner's rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is timeless. A classic in any civilized or uncivilized country.

Next you will be telling me that it is not L(eye)nux or (Ah)SHA.

I always like to jive a little jift to someone I appreciate! (or maybe for you, appre”ch”iate) ;)

Did you see the screen savers the other night. Leo said it with a hard G. What a moron lol.

Leo said it as “JIF” when he was mentioning the Mac animator program. It was Brian “The honorary Screen Saver” Stevens who blurbled through the GIF “JIF” thing that annoyed me the most.

Thanks for the tips on “jifs”. That Brent Spiner track made me laugh so hard I nearly broke the furniture.