Does the hunter go around the squirrel? Vote and then move on already.

[jimhelm]

how about this:

I'm standing in your way on a narrow foot path, facing you.

you need to pass.

I refuse to step aside.

you go around me.

you go to your left, my right. off the path for a few steps, and then back on and continue on your way.

you never see the left side of my body.

did you, or did you not.... go ...around... me?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

how about this:

I'm standing in your way on a narrow foot path, facing you.

you need to pass.

I refuse to step aside.

you go around me.

you go to your left, my right. off the path for a few steps, and then back on and continue on your way.

you never see the left side of my body.

did you, or did you not.... go ...around... me?

And I'll be thinking unkind thoughts about you as I do go around you.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

how about this:

I'm standing in your way on a narrow foot path, facing you.

you need to pass.

I refuse to step aside.

you go around me.

you go to your left, my right. off the path for a few steps, and then back on and continue on your way.

you never see the left side of my body.

did you, or did you not.... go ...around... me?

Yes.

Consider:

I'm driving in a crowded parking lot, looking for a spot to park my car. I see someone ahead of me getting into there car. I stop and wait for the person to vacate the space I want to take. There's room to pass and I wave to the person in the car behind me to drive past, and they do so. Have they "gone around" me?

***

My son comes home from kindergarten and tells me his friend has the chicken pox. Over the next couple weeks several kids in the same class also get chicken pox. Has the chicken pox "gone around" the class?

***

I host a party where I serve pulled pork and baked beans. Everyone helps themselves to the pork and the beans, but as the cook, I am too busy cooking and entertaining to make a plate. By the time I do so, all the beans are gone. Did the beans go around? What there had been enough for everyone? Would the beans have "gone around"?

***

At the end of the party, the last guest finally leaves. I watch them drive away down my long driveway and disappear from sight as the driveway curves gently to the left. Has my guest "gone around" the bend in the road?

***

"Gone around" has lots of contexts, and consequently lots of meanings.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by BigV

"Gone around" has lots of contexts, and consequently lots of meanings.

But irrelevant, because in this case, the correct context is understood by all.

People aren't confused that maybe "gone around" means the hunter has taken a few pisses in the vicinity of the squirrel.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

But irrelevant, because in this case, the correct context is understood by all.

People aren't confused that maybe "gone around" means the hunter has taken a few pisses in the vicinity of the squirrel.

I checked, and this post by you is the first one in either of these two threads, the poll about the kerfuffle, and the nutso thread with the kerfuffle puzzle. I have to say I don't agree that the "correct context is understood by all" at all.

I get your joke about "going/peeing". hahaha, clever, sure. And it's true that no one has made that mistake about the hunter and the squirrel. But as for the context of that mental nut being understood by all, that has definitely not been the case.

I'm interested in your answer to the original Mental Nut.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by BigV

I checked, and this post by you is the first one in either of these two threads, the poll about the kerfuffle, and the nutso thread with the kerfuffle puzzle.

I don't warrant such detail, but --

I'm interested in your answer to the original Mental Nut.

It's in the post above yours, professor.