I know I'd be at least a little bit sad if he up and vanished one day.
"at least a little bit sad"? Wow. I didn't realize I was having that magnitude of effect on Bitcointalk. Haha. Nah, I know what you mean, and, the feeling is definitely mutual: I'd miss you, too. 
@joker_josue, @Sandra_hakeem, @Cricktor, @nutildah, @Obim34: Thanks for the encouragement (and for bumping the patch thread). Please don't take me not leaving merit on your posts to mean that I don't appreciate them.
theymos fixed it already using Patch C, it only needed a second bump for him to take action.
Yup, I saw that. It cheers me up. (And now my blood pressure can stop spiking when I see someone complaining about something that I've already fixed. At least, for this particular issue.) 
@LoyceV: I'm sorry that this affected some of your data projects. Fix A wouldn't have (but, that would've caused old posts to render differently). I don't think it's possible (as in, CSS isn't powerful enough) to repair this bug in a history-preserving way without making some kind of change to the markup. Anyway, I hope I didn't create too much extra work for you. (Longer term, the forum really needs an API. It's very backwards that the frontend has to be disturbed as little as possible because of all the third-party projects built against it.)