SQUIRREL

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1. n. what makes a squirrel? It is the person on the other side of the squirrel. It is a person invalidating him invalidating his goals, invalidating his interest, and kicking the props out from underneath him by covert hostility or overt hostility, but in any way, kicking him apart. He's interested, he's working, but part of another universe. But practically on the same time continuum is an invalidative mechanism about this man not Scn. It isn't kicking Scn around, it's kicking around somebody's stable data and it's creating continuous confusions for him. So he splits off not knowing quite where he stands. Is he in this universe called Scn or is he or she in this universe called husband or wife or something? So here we have this invalidative person who is against it on the other side or our guy and we sometimes can't reach this other person. (5511CO3) -v.

2. means go off line. (HCO PL 3 Dec 68)

3. (going off into weird practices or altering Scn) only comes about from non-comprehension. Usually the non-comprehension is not of Scn but some earlier contact with an off-beat humanoid practice which in its turn was not understood. When people can't get results from what they think is standard practice, they can be counted upon to squirrel to some degree. (HCO PL 7 Feb 65) -adj. by squirrel is meant off-beat technology. (HCO PL 6 Feb 66)

4. a squirrel is doing something entirely different. He doesn't understand any of the principles so he makes up a bunch of them to fulfill his ignorance and voices them off on a pc and gets no place. (SH Spec 77, 6111C08)

5. those who engage in actions altering Scn, and ofbeat practices. (ISE, p. 40)— v. to change and invent processes. (HCOB 23 May 69)