Has she ever dropped a sash weight?

Is your father a——no I won't say it.

An inside joke that only builders get?

She was just not transparent enough.

No Long Johns in my part of the country. Crullers qualify as having been made with donut dough, tasting the same but a different shape. Without the hole they can't be understood as bing actual donuts. So I guess the shape is the deciding factor in answering the question of "just what is a donut."
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If the material removed creates an opening outside round shape it is no longer a circle but just a piece of cake with a chunk missing.

And space bounded by a circular border is a circle. Most circles contain empty space within their border. A donut hole is by definition a circle. The donut is the border the empty space is the circle. That is if you consider the border as being a boundary NOT within the circle. If so a circle is NOTHING encircled…