h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I looked up the answers online, and then looked up the Post's answers, and then compared the two. To a musician, # is a sharp sign. To many others, it is the number sign. On my telephone it is authoritatively known as the pound sign. But none of these is the answer you gave, and the world is going in a direction that I am not fond of.

Four years ago, the number of allowed characters in a tweet was greatly increased.

I regularly read Tweets without being subscribed to Twitter. I will not spoil the fun other readers by revealing how.

When I went to Atlanta 15 years ago, people warned me to be the lookout for feral hogs. I didn't see any on the 15th floor of the hotel I stayed at, despite the tasty grits that they served for breakfast.

There are several dozen slightly different t-shirts for sale with the saying '#: This is a sharp, not a hashtag.' Your mileage may vary, but I suspect wearing it will not make you popular.

I say this although I regularly wear the one that says 'I don't play wrong notes, I make spontaneous creative decisions.' This is considered self-deprecating, and goes over well at gigs.

I suspect razorbacks have trouble pushing the elevator buttons in Atlanta. Also, they can't read menus.

I try not to think about those pigs, having been traumatized by the first scene of Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto." Yeah, I know that the animal in that scene was a tapir, but it looked a lot like a pig.