And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The term octothorpe’s origins are a bit murky, but it’s often humorously attributed to telephone engineers from Bell Labs in the 1960s. They were looking for a more fanciful name for the # symbol on the telephone keypad, and “octothorpe” was born, with “octo-” referring to the eight points of the symbol, though the “-thorpe” part is a bit of a mystery. DaleC in Idaho
Nurdle? In my 1950s high school days that was a 140 I.Q. introverted, suspected gay dude with a shirt pocket pen protector holder, a slide rule in a belt leather holster, wearing tan chinos, penny loafers and bragging he’d just gotten his admittance letter from Yale.
sort of looks like tic tac toe, my sister told me years ago about the eight pointsand also the person coming up with the name octothorpe was a fan of the sportsman Thorpe
A popular Spoonerism when I was a kid - "A hypodemic nerdle"
ReplyDeleteThe term octothorpe’s origins are a bit murky, but it’s often humorously attributed to telephone engineers from Bell Labs in the 1960s. They were looking for a more fanciful name for the # symbol on the telephone keypad, and “octothorpe” was born, with “octo-” referring to the eight points of the symbol, though the “-thorpe” part is a bit of a mystery.
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Nurdle? In my 1950s high school days that was a 140 I.Q. introverted, suspected gay dude with a shirt pocket pen protector holder, a slide rule in a belt leather holster, wearing tan chinos, penny loafers and bragging he’d just gotten his admittance letter from Yale.
ReplyDeleteI was gobsmacked when I learned Prince Charles has a servant squeeze the toothpaste onto his brush for him.
ReplyDeletesort of looks like tic tac toe, my sister told me years ago about the eight pointsand also the person coming up with the name octothorpe was a fan of the sportsman Thorpe
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