Gamma: The introspective, the unusual, the unattractive, and all too often the bitter. Gammas are often intelligent, usually unsuccessful with women, and not uncommonly all but invisible to them, the gamma alternates between placing women on pedestals and hating the entire sex. This mostly depends upon whether an attractive woman happened to notice his existence or not that day. Too introspective for their own good, gammas are the men who obsess over individual women for extended periods of time and supply the ranks of stalkers, psycho-jealous ex-boyfriends, and the authors of excruciatingly romantic rhyming doggerel. In the unlikely event they are at the party, they are probably in the corner muttering darkly about the behavior of everyone else there... sometimes to themselves. Gammas tend to have have a worship/hate relationship with women, the current direction of which is directly tied to their present situation. However, they are sexual rejects, not social rejects.
Sound familiar?
That's funny. In the Army, there were vehicles called 'Gamma Goats'. They were 6-wheeled, and double-articulated in the middle - good for hauling ammo and provisions in coarse terrain, and forests too thick to permit larger vehicles through, the gamma goats were almost as useful as they were troublesome - they were maintenance nightmares, and had two bad habits in the field - getting "pinched" in draws and gullies, and rolling down-hill, side-over-side, if driven along the face of a steep ridge while heavily loaded... both were really operator errors, but the goat got no love...
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