mm, Pat. Control system eh. Maybe L is right - git, a class thing?
Bill
> On 3 Sep 2015, at 2:06 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Many poet gits!!!!!
>
>
> git
> ɡɪt/
> nounBRITISHinformal
> an unpleasant or contemptible person.
> "that mean old git"
>
> Git (/ɡɪt/) is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. Git was initially ..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 01 September 2015 22:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Where does a git fit?
>
> In the lexicon of insults,
> somewhere between
> a klutz and a dipshit?
>
> Usually preceded
> by the adjective 'stupid',
> ignorance is implicit.
>
> But a particular sort
> of twittery earns
> gittishness, not merely
>
> unawareness; rather
> a deep and obvious
> nous lack.
>
> Your standard git
> announces himself
> (females are unaccountably
>
> excluded from githood)
> by doing something
> no non-git would be
>
> caught dead doing
> or by failing to do what
> sensibles manage unthinkably.
>
> If not born a git,
> beware: you might yet
> make a git of yourself.
>
> bw
>
> Thanks L, for providing the impetus here.
>
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