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    What is the connection between the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the telephone touchpad?

    Question #95110. Asked by maninmidohio. (Apr 27 08 12:29 PM)


    knud77

    		Carlisle had Jim Thorpe and the touchpad has an octothorpe (#).

    Apr 27 08, 12:48 PM
    BRY2K

    		Actually, I found the same connection (so kudos to knud77):

    An octothorpe's (number sign - #) origins: reportedly a jocular coinage by Bell Labs supervisor Don Macpherson in the early 1960s, from octo- (“eight”) (with reference to the eight points) plus -thorpe (after 1912 Olympic medalist Jim Thorpe, in whom Macpherson had some interest.)

    The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is most widely remembered for its star American football player, Jim Thorpe and their team the Carlisle Indians, coached by Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octothorpe

    Apr 27 08, 12:57 PM

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