I was sad to hear the news of the death of Ronnie Corbett. I’ve always been a huge fan of The Two Ronnies and much of the other work the duo had done both together and individually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGpaj2nHIo
Within moments of the news breaking, tributes such as photographs of four candles and fork handles, and links to the clip on YouTube. As soon as I saw these tributes I thought of the phrase fork handles taking another alternative meaning: forking a project called handles on GitHub. So I created the repo, and encouraged others to fork it:
In tribute to Ronnie Corbett, I've made a new @github repository. You can fork handles: https://t.co/GgH2ZpGCLy
— Ben Nuttall (@ben_nuttall) March 31, 2016