Thanks, Doug. We all have our gittish days and ways, I'm sure.
Bill
On 03/09/2015, at 12:43 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Yes, a good entry for the insult dictionary….
>
> Doug
> On Sep 1, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, Bill.
>>
>> You have a feel for such idioms.
>>
>> (The one line I stumble over is
>>
>> nous lack
>>
>> maybe cause you force the noun to be an adjective…
>>
>> Max
>>
>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 14:44, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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