Thumper_10x7_CA: I'm pretty sure when someone says "put my hand around it" they mean grasping it they way you'd hold a hammer, or a baseball bat, or a glass of water. Your palm flat against it with your thumb around the circumference towards your body and your index, middle, ring and pinky fingers around the circumference away from you. If your thumb and any of the 4 other fingers can't touch then you "can't put your hand around it."

That's the way mammals with opposible thumbs grasp things. It's more powerful by giving a more secure grip. Primates on the other hand can't grasp this way because their thumb is not opposible. Primates have to grasp with the palm flat against the object and all 5 fingers encircling the circumference in the same direction.

Geeeeesh, how technical can we get?