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Sunday, December 10, 2006


I've always wondered how # became the "pound" sign. I always thought it was the 'number' sign until I got lost on the phone tree of countless banks. Now I find out that it has a perfectly useful name: the octothorpe. And here's a bunch of other crap you won't remember, either. Aside from learning a great word for otter dung, I'm going to have to take issue with "wamble" for stomach rumbling. Borborygmus sounds so much more mystifying.



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