Asterisk Man

Yesterday's Unstrange Phenomena: For some historical and psychological background, see  "You taught me language, and my profit on't / is, I know how to curse", 7/17/2005; "The earliest typographically bleeped F-word?", 6/15/2006; "Obscenicons a century ago", 6/17/2010; "More on the early history of obscenicons", 7/24/2010. [Tip of the hat to Alex Baumans]