On 3/15/2016 9:31 AM, binky feel good wrote:
On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 9:10:16 AM UTC-6, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:
On 3/15/2016 6:47 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Mark Lloyd writes:
On 03/14/2016 09:19 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:

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To me it looks like a Mexican who got run over by a steam roller.

It's known as an "octothorpe".


Cool! Thanks for that relevant info, which inspired this old Colonel to
look it up.................

"Octothorpe is just one of a plethora of names for the symbol. In the US
it's often called the pound key, because it has long been used to mark
numbers related to weight, or for similar reasons the number sign, which
is one of its internationally agreed names."

hash


We "hashed" things out in Nam.