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Dear experts,
Today on CNN I found this :
McClintock also insisted he has the momentum to win the election, now just 12 days away.
"Our message is clearly resonating across California," he said. "I began this campaign as an asterisk behind Peter Camejo of the Green Party.
I haven't come across this use of "asterisk". Have you?
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No; but then I've never heard of either of those 2 gentlemen, either. It sounds like he meant that formerly, he was so little known that the asterisk was used as a reminder that: somebody else was running, now what was his name again?
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Never heard this form either Werner; maybe he meant it as in the form "just a footnote", by confusion with the typographic style that sometimes uses an asterix for this function?
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Ew, didja hafta raise that rancescent rampallion’s rabid rantings to mind? :)
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I know seven thousand words that hardly exist outside of my website
OK, so, your point is ...
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>OK, so, your point is ...
absolutely none.
(it was a crossthreaded quote of a line that maverick threw at me earlier today; an insider's riposte of no consequence whatsoever...)
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Not to be confused with Asterix -- the "hero" of the Latin-language comic books.
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insider's riposte of no consequence whatsoever...
touché.
formerly known as etaoin...
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