Mom! Did you know that the actual name for the symbol "#" is "octothorpe"? It's not "pound sign" or "hash symbol" or even "number sign". It's friggin' "octothorpe"! We've been lied to by millions of computers who tell us to "Press the pound sign." No wonder it always take me about half a second to remember what symbol they're talking about! They're calling it the wrong thing!

I'm patiently waiting for the day when my bank's computer will instruct me to "Enter your telephone banking PIN, followed by octothorpe."