On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:20:53 -0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Tough Guy no. 1265
wrote:

The symbol # is called an octothorpe.
(A whimsical creation based on the idea that the symbol
looks like a village surrounded by eight fields)

No, it's for playing microscopic noughts-and-crosses on.

You mean atomic noughts and crosses.

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In 1873, the British refined the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first.