Question: Dearly Beloved,

this has been a very sad week for all of us. Our good friend [~quack](https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/137184/quack-quixote) has lost what
clearly was a largely important part of his Trilogy life. After a [month-long
struggle](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25542/display-names-bugs-no-allowed-cant-reset-unset-kills-profile-copy), he has given in to the inevitable and sent his Tilde to finally rest
in peace.

Having our friend experience this tragedy would be sad enough, but the loss is
even greater: With an ASCII code of 126, the Tilde was the last of the [printable
characters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_characters). The implications of it being no more cannot even be imagined yet.

Thus I ask you all to give a dignified salute to it that "[is colloquially known
as a 'squiggle' by people who do not know its name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde)".

The manner in which you
pay the tribute is of your choice: Be it that you create a Haiku telling its story,
compose a song giving praise to the many wonderful deeds of the Tilde, use your
art skills to design a poster that commemorates the swung dash in all its glory,
write a Greasemonkey script to let the Tilde appear amongst us one more time
– or whatever way you find to let the world know

~, you will be missed.
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Answer: 
I have visions of tildes flying around, looking for a new user to possess... 

[~ http://djtrousdale.com/arts/wp-content/original/2009\_08/epuc-tilde.jpg](http://djtrousdale.com/arts/wp-content/original/2009_08/epuc-tilde.jpg)
I often use the tilde to express "approximately" or "about", as a replacement for `=` when I provide WAGs.

As such, I can only offer my congratulations to quack for having fully realized his true nature, rather than only approximating the quackitude he so fittingly displays.

Your old self will be missed, but we look forward you full antics.

~quack

All hail the real quack!
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