I don't warrant such detail, but --

It's in the post above yours, professor.

Is anybody else catching the very clear Monty Python Dead Parrot vibe about this topic? Every time I see it I hear John Cleese apoplectically shrieking, "He circumnavigates the bleeding Squirrel!" in my mind's ear ...

You will too, now, won't you?

Or the argument room....No he isn't.

LOL!!!!

Yes. In at least one sense of "go around" the hunter has gone around the squirrel.

I hear that squirrel is a slut and and has been around half the creatures in the woods.

When you spin, the only thing you go around is the axis within your body and maybe some tiny motes on the floor...

When you spin, the only two things you go around is the axis within your body and maybe some tiny motes on the floor and a fanatical devotion to the pope

When you spin, among the things you go around are...

Yeah, but it's a fairly small woods.

so the squirrel must also go around the hunter then.

Oi' vey ... not if his circle is INSIDE the hunters.

It really is a semantics thing. Does the hunter encircle/circumnavigate the squirrel? Of course he does.

I've tried to come up with a word or phrase that explicitly means what the nay-sayers are talking about. I haven't found one. In particular, M-W online does not contain a definition for "go around" that has the alternate meaning.

I think I understand what the "no" people are thinking. The hunter doesn't get to see the backside of the squirrel, because the squirrel is constantly adjusting to make sure it faces the hunter.

But I don't see that as a valid definition for "go around". Perhaps we need a new word for this. Since we already have "haggis" as the new word for LOL, I searched for other disgusting foods and found this page: http://www.toptenz.net/top-ten-grossest-foods.php

I suggest in the future when we mean that the hunter never gets to see the backside of the squirrel, we use the term "maggot cheese". I.E. The hunter definitely did not maggot cheese the squirrel.

No. Refer to the mental nuts thread for foot's geometrical explanation as to why the hunter does not go around the squirrel.

It's geometry. Not fairies and semantics. Geometry. And it has nothing to do with the squirrel's ass. :lol:

ha ha ha... It IS semantics and its MEANT to be. Not geometry, not fairies.

Do both people make a circle? Then one of those circles is inside the other circle. So...

Wait...












Are they on a treadmill?

Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Billy Preston.

yesterday, I did this with a co worker:

He was of the opinion that the hunter does not go around...

the floor in the show room is 12" tiles. I had him stay inside the outer perimeter of 4 of the tiles... a 2' square. i told him to stay facing me as I walked around him. once I had gone all the way around, I asked if I had gone around him.


he said no.

so, i gave up and called him a faggot.