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Re: Character names (Was: Re: Indicating multilevel picks in menus)
Subject:Re: Character names (Was: Re: Indicating multilevel picks in menus) From:Ad absurdum per aspera <JTCHEW -at- LBL -dot- GOV> Date:Tue, 7 Dec 1993 23:17:18 GMT
> * - splat; star
"Star" seems to be the usual usage; if not, voicemail systems
will soon make it a fait accompli. Of course, there is a
good mnemonic for its real name:
Little Mary put on skates
Upon thin ice to frisk.
Wasn't she a foolish girl,
Her little *?
It just doesn't work as well with "star."
Cheers,
Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
"Liberals tend to abuse power to save us from ourselves; conservatives
tend to abuse power to save us from the bogeyman-du-jour. The're both
willing to enslave or impoverish us to save us, whether we think we need
to be "saved" or not." [Steve Gombosi]
