Reality Check by Dave Whamond for December 02, 2021

So you are non-binary?

Looks like a tic-tac-toe board to me.

But my name is Oglethorpe.

Let’s all sing along: “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t”

He looks pretty sharp to me.

The official name of the number sign, the one located at the bottom right hand corner of phone keypads and used to label hashtags on social media, is octothorpe. Also called a hash or a pound sign, the symbol has roots in 14th century Latin.

Surprised he can afford a shrink on his Starbuck’s salary…

Where did that Hashtag stupidity originate?

I didn’t realize that picket fences needed therapy.

It’ll always be a number sign to mine eyes.

…and sometimes they play TIC TACK TOE on me….

Just don’t go cutting off pieces because you identify as one or the other at this moment.

You’re versatile. This is a strength.

Oglethorpe the Octothorpe – lol

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Multiple personalities.

The ‘Sybil’ sign.

Pound sign.  One would think that early on in the “Me Too” movement someone should’ve known that that symbol also means pound/s.  “Pound me too”?, perhaps they should’ve gone with “#I also”.

And is Ralph saying “Pound Hashtag”?

I spent an hour last night telling people it’s a sharp sign.

I wonder how Victor Borge would pronounce the #

http://youtu.be/zFzMWml_X5o

It will get hashed out.

I feel like a numberI’m not a number, I’m not a numberDamn it I’m a man, I said I’m a man

Would you like to play a game?

Suddenly I have Bob Seger in my head …

And when I’m feeling creative, I feel like a musical sharp.

ID-entity crisis?

Where did the term pound sign come from???