Overheard on the CRA Phone Lines....

Submitted by rernst on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:55am

"...or, press the star key to the left of the zero"

Out of the blue, that struck me as odd. ...to the left of the...., I puzzled.

I guess that you could say the pound/hash/number sign looks like a star pattern. Might be cultural differences: I don't know for certain. A bilingual government sometimes does strange things.

For you trivia buffs: it has many different names, including Octothorpe

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