I Don’t Gita

Cidu Bill on Mar 9th 2010

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25 Responses to “I Don’t Gita”

  1. CIDU Bill Mar 9th 2010 at 12:07 am 1

    Okay… Can Gita be the woman’s name? And if it is, is the cat merely saying he prefers being able to sit/walk on top of a larger desktop computer? If so, the second line seems to be there just to confuse me.

  2. AmazingThor Mar 9th 2010 at 12:09 am 2

    Cats like to sit on top of computer screens (apparently. Mine prefers the DVD player). But the laptop screen is too thin and the cat is precariously balanced. Therefore, it prefers the older CRT monitors.

  3. Elyrest Mar 9th 2010 at 12:12 am 3

    I’m not sure what you don’t understand - the cat on the laptop or the Gita? I don’t understand the Gita either (a name?) The cat though makes sense. Many cats like to walk (or sit) on top of the monitor while their person is using the computer. A laptop is just no fun.

  4. Elyrest Mar 9th 2010 at 12:15 am 4

    Cidu Bill - I swear you response wasn’t there when I was typing mine, but you seem to be thinking along the same lines. I have never heard the name Gita either.

  5. Frank the curmudgeon Mar 9th 2010 at 12:50 am 5

    GITA
    Gender: Feminine
    Usage: Indian
    Other Scripts: गीता (Hindi)
    Means “song” in Sanskrit. The word appears in the name of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’, a sacred text of Hinduism (meaning “divine song”).

  6. Rasika Mar 9th 2010 at 02:56 am 6

    Gita is an Indian name. Its usage here though makes no sense, considering she looks nothing like an Indian, and I assume Gita is not a common American name.

  7. Lord-z Mar 9th 2010 at 03:11 am 7

    Maybe she is of scandinavian origins. I know that Gitte or Gitta is a normal name, there. There is a danish actress named Ghita Nørby. Or, it could be short for something.

  8. chuckers Mar 9th 2010 at 04:47 am 8

    The Gitte I know is danish as well. Although I am not sure of the spelling right now.

    Keera would probably know a few if I were to hazard a guess.

  9. Nicole Mar 9th 2010 at 07:40 am 9

    I worked for an Indian woman named Gita. The colorist is clearly showing their western prejudices. The woman could have easily been colored with dark skin and black hair and looked Indian.

  10. Bud the Chud Mar 9th 2010 at 08:36 am 10

    Don’t cats just normally lay on the keyboard??

  11. Dyfsunctional Mar 9th 2010 at 09:21 am 11

    I was hoping it was something computer-related, or maybe an acronym. It’s not, but now that I said that, I can see where this thread is going.

  12. Jeff Mar 9th 2010 at 09:23 am 12

    Cats like to sit on the old CRT monitors. Modern monitors are too thin for them to sit on.

  13. mitch4 Mar 9th 2010 at 09:25 am 13

    Back in the days of “the Internet is for posting pictures of your cats” (and Denis Leary in IBM commericals mocking that stance) my online presence was mostly a series of pics of one of my cats on top of a bulky old CRT, peering over the edge and swatting at something onscreen. (Yes, probably the mouse cursor.) And visible on screen was the program where I was cleaning/cropping a previous picture in the series — so she might have been viewing her own picture, upside down.

    By now I’ve changed computers (maybe more than once?), and while my desk top still has a desktop computer, its display screen is a thin-panel LCD. And Callie is a mostly sedate matron, capable of jumping up on the couch but probably not ready to make it up to the desk surface even. I’m not sure which part of that happened first — but I think there may have been a moment like that in the comic, where she tried to climb up on the monitor but found only a flat panel with a thin edge instead of the comfy CRT box, and expressed her disdain for the change.

  14. hia5 Mar 9th 2010 at 09:51 am 14

    Yes, cats loved to sit on top of the old CRTs, largely because of the heat these monitors generated. If you didn’t have a fireplace, the top of the monitor was the cat’s second choice.

  15. Soup Dragon Mar 9th 2010 at 09:58 am 15

    In Norway, there are a handful of women called “Gita”, presumably of Asian origin. By contrast, there are hundreds of gals called “Gitte”, though it’s more of a Danish name.

    http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/00/navn_en/

  16. Igelino Mar 9th 2010 at 10:01 am 16

    The cat obviously prefers Windows.

  17. MagicEyes Mar 9th 2010 at 10:36 am 17

    I know a white American woman named Gita. I don’t have any idea how they picked that name, but it proves that there are white women with that name (well, at least one).

  18. Judge Mental Mar 9th 2010 at 11:12 am 18

    I interpreted this the same way as CIDU Bill. The joke works fine without the second line. The “Gita, I am talking to you” adds nothing but confusion.

    Some speculations on a potential motivation:

    1) Guy and/or Rodd felt compelled to specify that the cat wasn’t talking to himself, but directing his comment to the female, even though the text was displayed in a thought balloon (ala Garfield). “Gita” may have just been a “random” girl’s name, but unfortunately, by picking such an unusual name, it suggested to most of us there was something more to it. If this is the case, I suggest, “Hey, I am talking to you” would have worked better.
    2) It is an inside joke to someone Guy and/or Rodd knows named Gita. The main joke was straight-forward enough, we all got the it; so they may have felt there was no harm in throwing in an additional inside joke.
    3) Some combination of 1 and 2. Perhaps it was mostly #1, but the authors often use names of their friends and relatives whenever there is an opportunity to do so.

  19. mitch4 Mar 9th 2010 at 11:36 am 19

    I’m inclined toward the Judge’s explanation #2.

    But just to toss in a distractor, is there any chance the laptop is named Gita? And the cat knows that, and is making a direct and rather insulting profession of dislike.

    On another tangent — it’s not quite synchronicity, but I have the impression of having recently seen almost the same joke in almost the same panel (maybe in Kit ‘n’ Carlyle), but with the cat announcing a dislike for “this new kind of laptop” — intending to contrast the old kind, a person’s actual lap, which the cat can more readily sit on.

  20. Keera Mar 9th 2010 at 02:05 pm 20

    What Soup Dragon said. Gitte is short for Birgitte (Scand. for Bridget) and typically Danish. In Norwegian and Swedish, the common diminutive of Birgitte is Brit(t) (like in Ekland).

  21. CIDU Bill Mar 9th 2010 at 02:28 pm 21

    Of course, this is probably as simple as either Guy or Rodd having either a wife or girlfriend named Gita.

  22. Lola Mar 10th 2010 at 12:24 am 22

    CIDU #21 - Oh I hope you are right and there isn’t some new paramour named Gita, in which case you’ve outed their affair and there’ll now be much domestic disharmony.

  23. drdan Mar 11th 2010 at 12:14 am 23

    I can’t use my lap top on the bed anymore as my cat kept climbing on the keyboard after trying to climb over the top of the screen (and closing it which I guess got the same result he wanted) , I gave up and use a tv dinner table, now he crawls nest to me ans pulls at the ear phones.

    I also think the Name is an inside joke, as well as the cartoon

  24. Frog72 Mar 11th 2010 at 04:00 pm 24

    We had a dog named Bridget, who we called “Gita,” going with Soup Dragon.

  25. Tullia Mar 16th 2010 at 06:49 pm 25

    Not that anyone’s ever going to read this, but –

    From the “Gita, I’m talking to you,” I think the cat is having trouble getting the woman’s attention. And I know our cats love the old, big monitors because they can drape their paws, tails, and heads over the top third of the screen, which gets them attention every time. The thin screen? They wouldn’t be able to do that. The cat is partially angry because the woman can now ignore it more easily.

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