OT What is this? #

[Mr Macaw]

What do Americans call this sign? #

[bob_villain]

number or pound sign depending on use...

[Frank]

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

[Don Y]

octothorpe

[bob_villain]

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

[Mr Macaw]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain w= rote:

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely= isn't a pound sign. That's a =A3. I should know, it's our unit of cur= rency! We never buy something for #3.25!

-- =

Last night I reached for my liquid Viagra and accidentally swigged from = a bottle of Tippex. I woke up this morning with a huge correction.

[Frank]

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

[Mr Macaw]

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface? It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or anything.

[Muggles]

You did ask "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"

As far as I know,just like bob_villain said, we mostly call it either a pound sign or number sign in general use. Although, twitter uses the sign for their own purposes, I suppose that's become common place, too.

[taxed and spent]

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a ?. I should know, it's our unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!

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25# sack of potatoes.

[Retired]

You asked "What do *Americans* call this sign? #" Americans in the former colonies do use # to indicate "pounds" for weight, as in pounds and ounces.

[Mr Macaw]

Pound sign is just wrong. It would be like me calling it a dollar sign. A dollar is clearly $ as it's used for currency.

[Mr Macaw]

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures.= The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potat= oes in the sack.

-- =

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

[Dean Hoffman]

72# = 72 pounds. #72 = number 72. My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods. We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc. Miles, yards, feets and inches. A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

[Stormin Mormon]

I read some where it's called octothorpe.

In my youth, it was tic tac toe board.

[Muggles]

An American #(pound) sign is for measuring weight of things, but a British pound sign is for measuring money. They both can represent "pound".

[Stormin Mormon]

After we drove King George out, we really #ed his ass?

A pint's a # the world around?

[Mr Macaw]

What has his donkey ever done to you?

Not with alcohol duty it bloody isn't. Why should the government get mo= ney when I drink? The brewery did the hard work, not them.

-- =

My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were = in bed. I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?" "No," she answered. I then said, "Is that your final answer?" She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, "Yes...." So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend." And that's when the fight started...

[Mr Macaw]

lb

[Mr Macaw]

Something to do with a village?

Nought and crosses.