Feature Request: EarlG and Elad, I hear we don't have the "GNU Terry Pratchett" header...can we get on that?

[sir pball]

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the clacks are a series of semaphore towers loosely based on the concept of the telegraph. Invented by an artificer named Robert Dearheart, the towers could send messages "at the speed of light" using standardized codes. Three of these codes are of particular import:

G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again

When Dearheart's son John died due to an accident while working on a clacks tower, Dearheart inserted John's name into the overhead of the clacks with a "GNU" in front of it as a way to memorialize his son forever (or for at least as long as the clacks are standing.)

Since Sir Pterry's untimely passing, a LOT of websites have added the GNU Terry Pratchett header…I would very much like to see DU do this; I've no doubt Sir Pterry would have loved us and probably been a participant had he known about us.

Long story short I'm respecfully asking we add the "GNU Terry Pratchett" header. He was as liberal as they come.

[Hekate]

1. Thanks. I never would have the temerity to ask the Admins here...

Let’s just say that I celebrate the Glorious 25th of May with a lilac pin on my hat. “Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg.”

Sir Terry had at least another 30 ooks in him. (Shoot, that was a typo, but I’ll leave it.)

[sir pball]

2. Hey...thank you. Keep it on!

Responses from Old TImers are important.

Still, we need to demand Nothing Less!

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I used to have this in white writing in my signature

But DU tightened the rules on what formatting could go in signatures, and it stopped working.

[Tree-Hugger]

4. Agreed

Terry Pratchett was a gem. "Good Omens" is one of my life-saving favorites.