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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004'Could someone explain the etymology of "*"'
Forwarded messages: Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2004 by oostevo: Could Someone Explain the Etymology of '*' I feel stupid asking this, but can someone explain what "*" means [at www.democraticunderground.com]? I realize that it represents Bush, but could someone please explain why we replace Bush with an asterisk? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2004 by leyton: I think it's supposed to mean that Bush is a footnote in history. Or something to that effect; I don't really care for the symbol myself. Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2004 by leyton End of forwarded messages Join the discussion at the source of the above posts at: http://tinyurl.com/2uq9d Or, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104 &topic_id=984471 Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti > Forwarded messages: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > please explain why we replace Bush with an asterisk? > [...] See *Doonesbury*, perhaps. And when the Dubya team arrived at the White House I understand that a lot of the keyboards were found to be missing the w key. The asterisk is conventionally, if absurdly, used to represent letters omitted from an obscenity. Mike. > > Forwarded messages: > > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > White House I understand that a lot of the keyboards were found to be > missing the w key. The General Accounting Office performed an inventory and found that the missing w keys was a lie perpetrated by BushCo. BushCo pretty much lied about the damage left behind by the Clinton administration according to the official GAO report. The report even stated the damage left behind by Bush Sr.'s administration surpassed the damage left behind by the Clinton administration. The report also stated that the Bush Sr. administration walked away with more items than Clinton's. www.amarillonet.com/stories/060101/opi_gsa.shtml > The asterisk is conventionally, if absurdly, used > to represent letters omitted from an obscenity. > > Mike. > > > Forwarded messages: > > > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > administration. The report also stated that the Bush Sr. > administration walked away with more items than Clinton's. [...] I'm rather glad than the reverse to hear it. I don't suppose you people have ever considered the shocking revolutionary notion of having an apolitical civil service, by any chance? No, of course not: far too Old Europe. Mike. >I'm rather glad than the reverse to hear it. I don't suppose you >people have ever considered the shocking revolutionary notion of >having an apolitical civil service, by any chance? No, of course not: >far too Old Europe. We do. It's just the top-end jobs that are not apolitical. > >I'm rather glad than the reverse to hear it. I don't suppose you > >people have ever considered the shocking revolutionary notion of > >having an apolitical civil service, by any chance? No, of course not: > >far too Old Europe. > > > We do. It's just the top-end jobs that are not apolitical. You mean it was *top-end* people who nicked all that stuff? That's alarming. Mike. I don't presume it's an indication to Asterisk! the Gaul Emil Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@yahoo.co.uk> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 3fa4d950.0401050422.5d4cafb4@posting.google.com... > > Forwarded messages: > > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Mike. > Forwarded messages: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I realize that it represents Bush, but could someone > please explain why we replace Bush with an asterisk? In Lord of the Rings, Sauron is said to be the evil whose name is not spoken. Someone used it at DU to represent Dumbya and everyone else picked it up. > Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2004 by leyton: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > http://www.mantra.com/jai > Om Shanti > Forwarded messages: > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > http://www.mantra.com/jai > Om Shanti It's from 'Doonesbury' and represents Bush with the asterisk that will always folow his name and direct the alamanac-reader's attention to the footnote telling how he didn't really win the election _as_such_. >Forwarded messages: >Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2004 by oostevo: >Could Someone Explain the Etymology of '*' When L. Ron Hubbard was on the lam from the law here in the United States, the crime syndicate refered to him as (*) in various documents. It didn't help since references in the documents seized by the Feds in 1977 nailed the fugitive who would have gone to prison with the rest of the felons had the Feds managed to located him. --- CAUTION: Reading these Scientology "secrets" will give you pneumonia: http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html http://w4u.eexi.gr/~antbos/XENU.HTM And Saddam: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ "You should eat what you kill." -- Cannibal George W. Bush, KCBS, 1/Jan/04 |
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