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November 5. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King!
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Boots were made for walking
Winds were blowing change
Boys fall in the jungle
As I Came of Age
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I never understood it.
I assumed that they celebrated ole Guy.
Nope.
I guess thats the difference between Americans and Commonwealthers.
I am MAGA.
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I never understood it.
I assumed that they celebrated ole Guy.
Nope.
I guess thats the difference between Americans and Commonwealthers. Part of the celebration is burning Guy Fawkes in effigy.
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Boots were made for walking
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As I Came of Age
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Campfire Kahuna
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I know it!
It should be a celebration instead of a thrashing.
I am MAGA.
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Campfire Oracle
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"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Guy Fawke was a Catholic who tried to overthrow the Protestant English government in an effort to restore Catholicism to England. He is not celebrated, thus the burning in effigy
Vladimir I. Lenin claimed, "One of the basic conditions for victory of socialism is the arming of the workers (Communists) and the disarming of the bourgeoisie (the middle class)."
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Just think, had he been French, he'd been Gee! 
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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How did the guy buy it? Did they burn him at the stake or hang him??
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand."
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How did the guy buy it? Did they burn him at the stake or hang him?? He was supposed to hang. In those days, hanging usually involved other things to make it extremely painful, like cutting them down while they were still alive then drawing and quartering them. Fawkes either fell or jumped off the scaffold before the hanging and broke his neck, saving himself a lot of pain. I should add that the British methods of punishment led to the US Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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How did the guy buy it? Did they burn him at the stake or hang him?? He was supposed to hang. In those days, hanging usually involved other things to make it extremely painful, like cutting them down while they were still alive then drawing and quartering them. Fawkes either fell or jumped off the scaffold before the hanging and broke his neck, saving himself a lot of pain. I should add that the British methods of punishment led to the US Constitution prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. Interesting. Thanks, RC.
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand."
James Elroy Flecker
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Wifey is there now observing the festivities.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
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As a kid we used to get old clothes, stuff em with newspapers to make a Guy and them wheel him around on a cart collecting a "penny for the Guy". Then the whole neighborhood would pile up scrap lumber and old furniture, anything that would burn. Even kids back then could buy fireworks over the counter in the lead in to Guy Fawkes day, we would have bottle rocket wars down back alleys (to the extent our modest funds allowed).
Guy Fawkes night people would gather around the bonfires and shoot off fireworks, burning a Guy in effigy. The firework connection was Guy and his conspirators had gotten so far as to have barrels of gunpowder ready to set off in the basement underneath the parliament. Bear in mind in England at least the Protestant vs. Catholic connection was long over, we was Irish Catholics in England and we still participated with absolutely no sense of irony. Guy Fawkes was ancient history. Belfast and Glasgow might be a different story.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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