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Uncle Monster wrote:



I'll bet you don't know what an "octothorp"
is. It's a part of every pushbutton phone.
*snicker*

[8~{} Uncle Monster

Sure do -- variously named sharp-sign, pound-sign, hash, etc. "#"

When you program computers, you learn that kind of stuff.

Like "!" being called "bang" and, in the U.K., at least by some
people some time ago, "shriek".


David