I think this question is valuable beyond just the trivia for several reasons:

1. Be careful when searching for brackets using like - they are a special character just like the percent and underscore (I had forgotten about this)

2. Remember that you can specify an escape character to search for one of the wildcard characters

3. If you do have some of the wildcard characters in your data, test carefully to make sure you can use LIKE like you want to (I would have thought that 2 would have shown up).

Chad