Badges? Badges? Yes, we have stinking badges!

A num­ber of kind cor­res­pond­ents have respon­ded to the pre­vi­ous post’s ill-tempered demol­ish­ing of the Blogger’s Code of Con­duct by ask­ing, either in the com­ments or via email, whether they could use my rather tongue-in-cheek ver­sion of the ‘Civil­ity Enforced’ badge on their site, thereby proudly prov­ing to vis­it­ors that that their blog is indeed “thor­oughly decent” and does not fea­ture any of the nasty, awful and dis­grace­ful unpleas­ant­ness that forced the decent and upstand­ing Mr O’Reilly to saddle up his mor­al­istic old nag — er, sorry, hobby horse — in the first place.

In case you need remind­ing, this is the badge in question:

So in answer to all those quer­ies: yes, if you wish to use the graphic, please do. Steal away. Shrink it, enlarge it, draw a felt tip mous­tache on our esteemed mon­arch. Do any­thing with it, in fact — but just make sure that you host the image on your own web­space rather than link­ing to it dir­ectly from here. Such is the vari­ety of blog­ging sys­tems and site designs out there that if you need the rel­ev­ant HTML code to include it on your pages, you will have to ask a respons­ible adult to provide the scis­sors and sticky tape.

Since I am unsure as to the pre­cise leg­al­ity of using Her Majesty the Queen’s image in such a dis­rep­ut­able fash­ion, please note that the only pro­viso I am includ­ing in the small print accom­pa­ny­ing your use of this badge is that if I should be arres­ted on charges of treason, I will cite every single one of you as accom­plices at my trial. In the words of the last lead­ing char­ac­ter — who­ever it was — to be dragged away by the Old Bill in East­Enders, “If I’m goin’ dahn, I’m takin’ you wiv me, roight?”