In honor of the Oxford Dictionaries team declaring the verb form of GIF as the word of year, it seemed only natural to do the magic with a young Happy Kyne playing his organ. Long before he was band leader of the Mirth Makers on Fernwood 2Night, Kyne performed as the organist for a long running children’s program from another famous Midwestern town.
There’s an interesting story involving the program’s original octogenarian organist whom Kyne replaced when the show - episodes of which can be found on your very own internet archive – was picked up by one of the major networks for national daily telecast. But that story will have to wait for another day as I need to hit the streets to record a podcast.
Just remember, we were GIFing before it was cool because we are ds106 hipsters #4life!
I never would have taken the time to figure out how to GIF were it not for ds106.
Perhaps the Oxford Dictionaries team should use “Nobody GIFs like the Bava, nobody!” for the model sentence for the definition.
Sign me up for whatever you are doing. You can;t kill me softly with your compliments, this is where the GIF action is.