where does the gif part come from? sorry to disappoint but tis not a file extention but a nickname conjured up years back... first year of GCSE's i do believe... some weird guy at school was sitting in the corner listening to opeara on his walkman... it was the marriage of figaro... i was in a circle of friends who were just happily chatting away... then the guy turns around , points at me, and shouts "FIGARO!!!" ... so i was called figaro for a while.... this got shortened to fig cos figaro apparently was too long... then eventually flipped around to gif just for the hell of it. gif has stuck ever since. I use gif83 as my online alias to prevent confusion with a certain file extention, the 83 part coming from the year of my birth.
yeah and i do have it on the back of my shirt too