I can picture it:

Poor ol' Brucie gets up, does the morning things, sits down at the computer and finds his ampersand is missing.

Frantic, he searches everwhere: over the one, the two, the eight, the four -- no luck. He finds his ~, his |, his [, even the }, but no ampersand.

He's getting desperate...and there's a certain pressure building he needs his ampersand to relieve. He checks his manual.

There's data on splats, on bangs, on pound signs, on tildes, on carats. And then -- the ASCII code for the ampersand will be found on page 124!

Eureka! He turns to page 124 -- and it's missing, because someone tore it out.

Naturally, he turns to Mudcat.

Mudcat turns it into a crude series of deviant barbs of sexual connotativeness...but Catters first tell Brucie that his ampersand is over the seven (7)!

Now having achieved Completeness, Brucie lies back content. But MC continues to debate and comment on such questions as the quality of ampersandiness, or is it ampersandich? WHY does the ampersand look so much like treble clef? Could you write out treble clef music by hand if you used the ampersand?

Fertile groups for discussion, all of them. And all because Brucie lost his ampersand.

Now that he's found it I hope that no one did anything disgusting with it while it was missing.