[A] punctuation mark developed to be distinct from the asterisk … many Arabs would not buy typewriters with a six-armed symbol, which they identified with the Star of DavidI looked down at my Logitech keyboard and… Holy Koran, Batman! The asterisk is indeed five-pointed!
Oddly, the factory keyboard on the eMac sitting next to it, which I use as an iTunes server, has the old-skool Zionist asterisk.
*shakes fist* Those crusader devils in Cupertino!
Six-pointy star here...
ReplyDeleteYay! I finally made it into the International Zionist Conspiracy! And here I thought you had to be Jewish or something...
When do I start getting checks?
This makes me want to take a keyboard with a six pointed asterick (like the one I am typing on), and use it to major league someone upside the head.
ReplyDeleteI have a pretty good idea where I'd start too...
This crap is making me sick and I'm tired of tolerance and political correctness.
-Rob
Glad my HP is still using the correct form.
ReplyDeleteMy Keytronic is also part of the World Zionist Conspiracy...
ReplyDeletecap'n chumbucket
Yep, 2 month old Logitech from Wallymart has a 5 pointed asterisk. Oddly enough, it makes a 6 pointed one on the screen! How does that happen!
ReplyDeleteI liked the 'ironic mark'.
ReplyDeleteMostly because, being an extended character not in the font set I was using, it didn't show up on my screen, thus being... ironic.
I'm proud to be using a zionist Dell....
ReplyDeleteMine has a five pointed star A pentacle! Does that mean it is made by Satanists (it is a Microsoft keyboard, after all)?
ReplyDeleteThis new Asus is six-sided. No one has threatened me yet...
ReplyDeleteI had to look up that "irony mark" Robb mentioned, and found the perfect punctuation mark for Tam: the Snark mark!
ReplyDeleteMy old Dell is a six. Must be single-action.
ReplyDeleteLove the picture of Islamic Rage Boy!
ReplyDeleteGerry
My new ($397@Wallyworld) Toshiba laptop is a six.
ReplyDeleteA vote for Zion from the Land of the Rising...uh, Star.
AT
...and yet this Logitech kb is a good six years old. Go figure.
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ReplyDeleteWell, those Arabs who have a problem with the Star of David should stay away from a lot of places in the Muslim world:
ReplyDeleteHumayun's tomb in Delhi, India(second emperor of the Islamic Mughal Dynasty)
Here's an image from the Wazir Khan Masjid in Lahore, Pakistan:
Six pointed star
I've seen both and this geometric design in a lot of Islamic architecture in South Asia. But those Muslims aren't Arabs.
Reading this on an iPhone, where the asterisk is 5-pointed on the soft keyboard.
ReplyDeleteSteve Jobs sold out! Burn him!
ReplyDeleteSix points on mine. 'Course it an old Compaq keyboard I stole, uhh, salvaged from an old call center that had closed.
ReplyDeleteSix points on the IBM Model M on which I pound. (Production date: 4 October 1990.)
ReplyDeleteHeh. My old-school AT101 (kinda like an IBM/Lexmark "M" model in a lot of ways) has a six-pointed asterisk. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I wonder if there's a font that replaces the asterisk with an actual Star of David?
ReplyDeleteSo.... does this mean instead of the Star of David they get a Pentacle?
ReplyDeleteHeathens the lot of you. My NORTHGATE keyboard has TWO six-pointed stars. I are teh wins!
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I wonder if the Nazi idea that a nose shaped in profile like a figure 6 was an indicator of Jewish ancestry, or the use of "Six" as a euphemism for "Jew" that it spawned, factor in to this?
ReplyDeleteAnd I want that Star of David (AKA Dmascus star) asterisk software too!
Six points on my year old HP keyboard. I think I'm going to have to use one in all of my posts for now on....
ReplyDeleteArab Anger Boy needs a pancake on his head. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe six pointed asterisk is NOT a Star of David, anymore than 3 pennies are the same as three nickels. Nor is the 5 pointed one a pentagram. The star of david is two equilateral triangles superimposed, leaving an open hexagon in the middle. If you make the outer angles a little sharper (and draw it just right), you get a pentagram instead - five points and an open center, formed without lifting the pen from the paper. (And that's what impressed the mystics...) It's likely that the ancient Jews decided that wasn't worth the trouble it takes to get the pentagram right, and so they substituted the two-triangle figure that anyone can draw.
ReplyDeleteIn nearly all fonts I've seen, asterisks are formed with lines meeting in the center. Anyone who'd mistake that for a star of david must be so unperceptive he might even mistake a hate-filled medieval murderer for a freedom fighter...