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::::::::::Even if we knew that #=="lb" (librum, pl. libra) and once saw it in common use on market-stalls (before/alongside metrification), it was so common to see it representing "£" (originally derived from a 'pound' of silver, so actually not so different, but clearly differentiated in prices such as "two pounds a pound", i.e "£2/- per #") and we quickly learnt that Americans would refer to the hash-key on a keypad phone as the pound-key (usually, perhaps just coincidentally, the key we might suggest to "pound" (...push hard and often) when frustrated with an automated system and trying to get the call-handling system to go through to a 'real' person). | ::::::::::Even if we knew that #=="lb" (librum, pl. libra) and once saw it in common use on market-stalls (before/alongside metrification), it was so common to see it representing "£" (originally derived from a 'pound' of silver, so actually not so different, but clearly differentiated in prices such as "two pounds a pound", i.e "£2/- per #") and we quickly learnt that Americans would refer to the hash-key on a keypad phone as the pound-key (usually, perhaps just coincidentally, the key we might suggest to "pound" (...push hard and often) when frustrated with an automated system and trying to get the call-handling system to go through to a 'real' person). | ||
::::::::::None of this helps anybody (not intending to jump in a time-machine) but as we're talking of these things... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.147|141.101.99.147]] 10:28, 1 June 2023 (UTC) | ::::::::::None of this helps anybody (not intending to jump in a time-machine) but as we're talking of these things... [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.147|141.101.99.147]] 10:28, 1 June 2023 (UTC) | ||
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"User disambiguation pages" also exist. See http:/ /esolangs.org/wiki/User_talk:XKCD_Wrong_Times_Table and http://esolangs.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/XKCD_Wrong_Times_Table_(disambiguation) . [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.126|172.69.22.126]] 02:07, 30 May 2023 (UTC) | "User disambiguation pages" also exist. See http:/ /esolangs.org/wiki/User_talk:XKCD_Wrong_Times_Table and http://esolangs.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/XKCD_Wrong_Times_Table_(disambiguation) . [[Special:Contributions/172.69.22.126|172.69.22.126]] 02:07, 30 May 2023 (UTC) | ||
:Those pages are not on Explain xkcd, is this spam? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:55, 30 May 2023 (UTC) | :Those pages are not on Explain xkcd, is this spam? --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 07:55, 30 May 2023 (UTC) | ||
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This is probably a reference to {{w|Jimmy Carter rabbit incident}} which has been previously referenced by xkcd. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.161|172.71.254.161]] 14:32, 31 May 2023 (UTC) | This is probably a reference to {{w|Jimmy Carter rabbit incident}} which has been previously referenced by xkcd. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.254.161|172.71.254.161]] 14:32, 31 May 2023 (UTC) | ||
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