Ah, that'd be Sir Git, that PHIL would it not, Pat, thanks to our budgie smuggler wearing git PM, Abbot.
Bill
> On 4 Sep 2015, at 6:26 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> plenty of old gits across the despised English 'class' look at our beloved family one 'prince Phillip' down to the depths of one Patrick McManus -how about some gittesses and young gits :-) a whole family of Gits
> written s as he plays his gittern :-)
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 1:51 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Where does a git fit?
>
> 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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