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Jeremy Katka (Jkatka)
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 11:30 am: | 
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Heya all, anyone else celebrating Guy Fawkes night? http://www.bonefire.org/guy/
JK |
Neil
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 06:22 pm: |
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Unfortunatly not, ever since we moved to Los Angeles sixteen years ago. Good memories of rocket wars outside the Queensbury tube station and putting togetehr a "guy" for the evening fun. Scared quite a few old geezers with those rockets. Have fun.
Neil
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Andrew Clarke (Aclarke)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 12:02 pm: |
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I attended a British boarding school in Zambia as a kid, and we had Guy Fawkes night every year. It was great. The school would save up all their used tires and engine oil all year, then we'd build a huge stack of wood and fill the middle with all the old tires. Then we'd dump all the engine oil on the stack and put Guy Fawkes on top. Then the headmaster would light it and all the little kids would stand around.
*cough* *hack* excuse my for some reason I've been coughing up blood recently (j/k). |
Rans (Rans)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 01:19 pm: |
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Okay, so perhaps my Brit friends can explain why the English celebrate a holiday for a man convicted as a tratior to the Crown? It would like us Americans celebrating Benmedict Arnold day. In fact, that would be a far better day for you Brits to celebrate than Guy Fawkes! (So I went to a British "Public" school!!) |
Andrew Clarke (Aclarke)
| | Posted on Thursday, November 07, 2002 - 01:38 pm: |
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Because they BURN Guy Fawkes! The celebration is the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes.
I just read http://www.bonefire.org/guy/gunpowder.php to familiarize myself with the story. The last line is apropos:
"Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government." |
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