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Do you know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

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Didactylos · 24/05/2022 23:42

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away

YANBU - Truth! Freedom! Justice! and a hardboiled egg!
YABU - what are you talking about?

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Mumtimes2 · 26/05/2022 21:22

DragonwithoutaDungeon · 25/05/2022 03:28

All the little Angels
How do they rise up?

They rise up high

mollythedogsmum · 26/05/2022 21:46

GenuineKlatchianPottery · 25/05/2022 07:20

All the little angels rise up
Rise up
GNU Sir pTerry
Always in the overhead
🥚

GenuineKlatchianPottery · Yesterday 07:20

Always in the overhead

This... made me cry a little... "always in the overhead"

GNU STP

HermioneWeasley · 26/05/2022 21:54

What a legacy STP gave the world.

Do you know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
EsmeSusanOgg · 26/05/2022 22:08

GNU pTerry! GNU

susiebennett · 26/05/2022 23:15

I love that Terry has turned up here.
gnu

Mysa74 · 27/05/2022 17:17

I can't bring myself to read the last one either...
GNU Sir Terry, you are missed xx

lifesabitchandthenyoudie · 27/05/2022 22:28

Thank you for this thread. I always miss the date, mainly because I haven’t anyone around me who knows! You’re my spirit family.

The Shepherd’s Crown is a beautiful book 💖

GlomOfNit · 27/05/2022 23:57

My lilac is white, browning now and hasn't yet recovered from a pruning two years ago. So I wasn't wearing the lilac on Wednesday. Not outwardly, anyway.

SushiShopSearch · 06/06/2022 09:32

please someone tell me what GNU means, thank you

MrsWidgerysLodger · 06/06/2022 09:50

SushiShopSearch · 06/06/2022 09:32

please someone tell me what GNU means, thank you

In Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, the operators of the clacks tower use “GNU” as a code to mean the message should be passed onto every tower. An article on wiki-Lspace says that “The G in the code means to send it on the U at the end means to turn the message around at the end of the line and the N means not logged.” When a clacks operator died while working, or was killed, their name was passed in the overhead with “GNU” in front of it, as a way of commemorating them, of not letting them die, because, “a man is not dead while his name is still spoken”. It’s a way of keeping them alive, you see.

SushiShopSearch · 06/06/2022 10:23

oh, thanks. I've never read Terry Pratchett so I would never have guessed the answer. cheers.

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