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>Interesting. To me, * has always been an asterisk (unless it's on top of a Christmas tree).
Many years ago there was a limerick about punctuation that ended something like this:
And what a little fool he was
his silly little *
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I stumbled upon this whilst searching for something esle -- somehow it reminded me of several of our threads: The World's Easiest Quiz QUESTIONS (click here for answers: http://puffin.creighton.edu/hist/quizans.htm) 1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get catgut? 4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? 5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? 6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? 7) What was King George VI's first name? 8) What color is a purple finch? 9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? 10) How long did the Thirty Years War last?
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6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
The Canary (dog) Islands are in the Pacific? Damn, that must have been a hell of a moving van! 
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>The Canary (dog) Islands are in the Pacific?
Dalmnation! Well spotted!
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6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?Hmmmmm. Could there be two? The Canary Islands in my encyclopedia are a group of islands in the North Atlantic ocean aprox 70 miles (113km) off coast of North Africa. And, if memory serves, the islands were named because of the huge number of dogs on the islands. Canis. Also Canis the dog star. Wasn't thatsome kind of a question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?  wow
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7) What was King George VI's first name?
Albert.
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>7) What was King George VI's first name?
and CK abbreviatedly replied: Albert.
you know this and you don't know where Chinese gooseberries come from? go figure...
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you know this and you don't know where Chinese gooseberries come from? go figure...Everything I have been taught, and the fruits of a quick Google search, suggest that this question may be the odd one out - that actinidia chinensis did originate in China - http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/kiwifruit.html being but one of many to say the same thing.
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Max said: Everything I have been taught, and the fruits of a quick Google search, suggest that this question may be the odd one out - that actinidia chinensis did originate in China -
Indeed they did. I once sat through a long and extremely boring investment seminar calculated to make me reach into my back pocket and invest heavily in a kiwifruit orchard near Te Puke.
The one piece of information I did come away with (and with the contents of my wallet intact, of course), was that, as Max says, we stole Chinese gooseberries from the Chinese. Is there no end to the perfidy of New Zealanders onto a good thing? (rhetorical question, Oztralians need not reply).
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a kiwifruit orchard near Te Puke...Should think it was more the contents of your stomach that woud be concerned?
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