Vin Scully asks: ‘What in the world is hashtag?’

Yahoo ^ | April 11, 2013 | David Brown

[EveningStar]

Vin Scully asks: ‘What in the world is hashtag?’

That's the question, isn't it? Legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, who makes everything sound better, especially baseball, also can make the word "hashtag" sound like some kind of illegal activity. He was curious about hashtagging, along with a new television channel called "Dog TV" that a satellite company is starting, so he worked both constructs into the broadcast of the Dodgers-San Diego Padres game Wednesday night. Naturally.

[EveningStar]

I've been familiar with hashtagging for years, first on IRC and then Twitter. However, I had never heard the term "hashtag" until quite recently, but then the term itself is relatively new.

This reminds me of a similar Scullyism:

Vin Scully & Troy Tulowitzki's Mullet

[EveningStar]

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[pikachu]

Hey Vin — it is what you get if you drink the water that was used to boil them Farmer John Dodger Dogs.

[llevrok]

God bless you Vin!!

Your style of communicating can never be replaced with tweets, hash tags or face(less) book!

[SevenofNine]

Vinnie honey it part of Twitter LOL!

I not going goof on Vinnie he is old enough to be my grandpa LOL!

[illiac]

The world was a better place without hash browns....I mean hash tags.....

[doorgunner69]

Don't worry about it Vin, I am clueless about this social network stuff as well.

At least naming it "Twit" was appropriate..........

[OrangeHoof]

For all Vin knows, a hashtag is made from hashish.

[x]

I don’t know, but those things can kill you.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/believe.wav

[Peter W. Kessler]

Looks like I’m in good company; I don’t know, either.

Facer / Twitbook are meaningless to me.

[dalereed]

what is a hashtag?

[ßuddaßudd]

Numba 1 !

[oh8eleven]

As a SF Giants fan, I don't care for Vin Scully.
As a lifelong baseball fan, I love Vin Scully.

[bravo whiskey]

i don’t know either. urthermore, except for keeping up with family and some old, like me, army buddies on FB, i don’t do the social network crap. there is a whole world out there to look at, not some dinky little screen all the time.

[EveningStar]

As I said before, I've see hashtags over the years but I'd never heard the term "hashtag" until recently, and I had to look it up:

A hashtag is a word or a phrase prefixed with the symbol # ...