Aristocrats and Asterisks and Asterix

Someone at work asked me the other day to put a couple of aristocrats on a part of a document we were working on.

I said: "What for?"
They said: "Just as a reminder for when I am doing the final edit".
I said: "You mean asterisks".
They said: Yes.

I didn't say anything else. Would you have?

(just to confuse you even further, I hope you like the completely unrelated picture)