WYGIWYGAINGW

"What you get is what your given and its no good whining."

An alternate version of WYSIWYG as popularised by Terry Pratchett.

Later on, the wizards wondered if the new universe might have been different if the Dean had waggled his fingers in a different way. Perhaps, within it, matter might have naturally formed itself into, say, garden furniture, or one giant nine-dimensional flower a trillion miles across. But Archchancellor Ridcully pointed out that this was not very useful thinking, because of the ancient principle of WYGIWYGAINGW.

-- Terry Pratchett (The Science of Discworld)

by Cpt.Carnage September 3, 2005