# A penny for the Guy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196 "2004-11-05T16:04:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/1 "2004-11-05T16:04:58Z")
Anyone? Anyone? C’mon, he’s not going to burn himself, people! ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/2 "2004-11-05T16:06:00Z")
😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/3 "2004-11-05T16:07:59Z")
Sorry, son. You’ll probably spend it on a bottle of White Lightning anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/4 "2004-11-05T16:20:59Z")
Whose face is that supposed to be on there - I can’t make it out? here you go. . . **1p** Haven’t you left it a bit late? Well you might get enough for sparklers. I’m feeling generous. . . **£1 88p** (in assorted change) Get yourself some bangers. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/5 "2004-11-05T16:23:36Z")
**Bear** [http://www.bonefire.org/guy/](http://www.bonefire.org/guy/) ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/6 "2004-11-05T16:26:43Z")
_My mother_ - “STOP LETTING OFF FIREWORKS YOU DEMENTED LITTLE BUGGERS YOU’RE SCARING MY CATS! GEDDOUTOFFIT!!” ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/7 "2004-11-05T19:12:06Z")
Call that a guy? A shell suit stuffed with newspaper? When I was your age… er… Oh, here you go… ::clink:: mutter mutter ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/8 "2004-11-05T19:30:14Z")
Take Canadian? _clink_ ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/9 "2004-11-05T19:41:44Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > **Bear** > > [Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night](http://www.bonefire.org/guy/) For others like me: "Preparations for Bonfire Night celebrations include making a dummy of Guy Fawkes, which is called “the Guy”. Some children even keep up an old tradition of walking in the streets, carrying “the Guy” they have just made, and beg passersby for “a penny for the Guy.” The kids use the money to buy fireworks for the evening festivities. On the night itself, Guy is placed on top of the bonfire, which is then set alight; and fireworks displays fill the sky." Thank you so much **yojimbo**! The two posts before yours were making me even MORE confused. Now I understand. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/10 "2004-11-05T19:59:47Z")
Here’s some slightly stale Halloween candy to be getting on with until I can dig out my old portraits of the queen. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/11 "2004-11-05T20:04:10Z")
Down with James I!!! ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/12 "2004-11-05T23:20:43Z")
_hands over a penny_ You guys realize every guy is named after this [Guy](http://www.bartleby.com/61/34/G0323400.html)? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/13 "2004-11-06T12:39:38Z")
Thanks everybody! _Sweeps up ashes, goes to see if a bottle of White Lightning can be had for less than £2_ ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/14 "2004-11-06T12:44:41Z")
We didn’t have a Guy but we had loads of fireworks. Good old Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/15 "2004-11-06T13:37:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _By calm kiwi_ > …but we had loads of fireworks. Unfortunately. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/16 "2004-11-06T22:10:22Z")
Here’s a Canadian quarter (one of those special red-poppy ones, too). I figure that’s a penny in British currency. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/17 "2004-11-06T22:42:31Z")
Sod off!!! You and those friggin Americanised trick or treaters are just bloody beggars, go and cut someones hedge and earn some money do some errands like I did as a child, get your arses away from the playstation and take up a paper round, bloody parasites!!! …and don’t come around here carol singing either or you’ll get a bucket of water. Bah! Humbug! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/18 "2004-11-07T00:04:02Z")
_clink_ Here’s an American dime. Burn Guy Lombardo, and I’ll give you a quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/19 "2004-11-07T05:22:16Z")
Does the Guy take Euros? ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196/20 "2004-11-07T10:15:20Z")
I have to say that Guy Fawkes Day sounds like a rather cool holiday. I guess the next best thing we have over here is Christopher Columbus Day. grumble [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-penny-for-the-guy/273196.md?page=2)