# What's the word? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188 "2010-02-08T20:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/41 "2010-02-09T21:35:26Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > I thought everybody knew that _the bird is the word._ [Indeed, sir](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow). ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/42 "2010-02-09T21:43:38Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > See post #2. I completely missed that posts 1 and 2 were both you. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/43 "2010-02-09T22:05:35Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I completely missed that posts 1 and 2 were both you. Yep, right there in the beginning, there was the word. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/44 "2010-02-10T01:36:35Z")
[homocentric](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/homocentric) Those circles are homos… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/45 "2010-02-10T13:48:57Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > [homocentric](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/homocentric) > > Those circles are homos… 😉 Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/46 "2010-02-10T14:18:42Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > They don’t _have_ to be, but they were … sometimes in the same direction, sometimes not. > > You can see why I’d be so confused. You were hyp-mo-tized! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/47 "2010-02-10T14:19:45Z")
Coaxial? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/48 "2010-02-10T14:40:32Z")
Oh, duh. I didn’t notice you’d answered your own question. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/49 "2010-02-10T14:53:12Z")
If one circle was inside the other, but they weren’t concentric (i.e. the smaller circle was off-centre relative to the larger one), then I dunno. Superimposed? Or just say the smaller circle is inside the larger one. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/50 "2010-02-10T14:59:50Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > There are two circles, each rotating independently, one within the other. > > They’re not intersecting, they are \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning, On an ever spinning wheel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/51 "2010-02-10T15:04:15Z")
Also, I am reliably informed that the big wheel is run by faith, while the little wheel runs by the grace of God. However, this only applies if the wheels are both way up in the middle of the air. My username is my cite. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188/52 "2010-02-10T15:29:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Like a circle in a spiral > Like a wheel within a wheel > Never ending or beginning, > On an ever spinning wheel > As the images unwind > Like the circles that you find > In the windmills of your mind. Nice username/post match! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-word/528188.md?page=2)