> I'd find it much more satisfying if we could all honour BBQ by upvoting enough of his praiseworthy historic nodes to allow him to finally reach his richly deserved sainthood

I concord, not a gift from gods but from the community! Quoting BBQ "..is our website.."

I think we can all upvote some of his nodes:

• #!/usr/bin/perl (already linked by you)
• Nostalgic this is a sweet for you
• Monk Pictures (httptech) another sweet for you: first pm pic ever
• Deep Linkage just for the fun
• Chip Monks and Trout Monks "..We have all built a community here.."
• Stats on our PerlMonks idea accepted
• More on Diversity and the FM. historical point about FM
• Monk's alt text
• Glue Other Users and Chatterbox!
• foo bar and baz! same question every non native English asked once .
• #!/usr/bin/perl T-shirts christmas 1999 gifts

PS I gave my contribution, still 82XP needed