B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 06, 2013

He was a real twit(ter).

Died from being ran over by a Woolly Mammoth while “texting” / “tweeting”….

he died of canine incontinence? apparently exposed during his last kennel stay…

Yeah, to me a pound sign (#) is a pound sign. Hash is something good to eat (if it is made right).

my tombstone will readOOPS

Here ya go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign – all you’ll ever want to know about this multi-named symbol. #who cares

Now if only the Hashtag ITSELF would die. A horrible…. miserable…. slow…. death.

I like yours, mine would be a little shorter,

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Etched in stone….

August 23, 2007?

How Twitter’s hashtag came to be

I grew up calling the symbol the “number sign,” which matches its usage for #1, #2, and so forth, and contrary to what the Wikipedia article claims, I did not get that usage from Canadian sources. My very American mother also called it that when referring to the symbol in its appearance on a typewriter keyboard. The sudden appearance of instructions to use the “pound key” on a telephone keypad therefore came as a surprise to me. It was only later that I first started noticing its use to represent “lb” in designations of weight, though I can understand that it was already in use long before I paid attention to that usage. I have heard (though not using the terminology myself) it referred to as a “hash sign” before it came to be a “tag” in internet applications. For clarification, I am of mixed British-American parentage, and took my secondary schooling in a British school in Hong Kong.