Remember, remember the 5th of November.
The treasonous gunpowder plot.
I’d recite some more lines,
that all end in rhymes,
but all of those lines I’ve forgot.
Tripler
Happy Guy Fawkes day!
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Penny for the Guy, guv?
(And people think the English don’t hold grudges.)
Odd. I learned it as:
Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason, and plot.
Never knew there were more lines to it than that.
I first learned it from an episode of the old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes radio program as:
Pleased to remember the fifth of November
gunpowder treason and plot
I see no reason
why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot
Oh thank goodness, this is about Guy Fawkes. I thought this was going to be about the Ron Paul donation day thing.
Has anyone been to the exhibit in the Tower about this lately? We went last year while in UK, and it was…odd. I had been to see it some 10 years earlier and it was all about the dastardly plot to overthrow Parliment etc. This time around, it was all about the marginalization and persecution of Catholics in England. Not that that isn’t valid, but I found it odd nonetheless.
Bonfire, anyone?
“Remeber to donate, the 5th of November,
so our candidate isn’t forgot.
I’ve got premonitions,
he’ll get recognition,
from the independent candidate plot.”
Tripler
I suck, but it’s better than “There once was a guy from Nantucket. . .”
Especially since Ron Paul isn’t from CT.
I think you mean Massachusetts…not CT.
Eh, all those little states up that way all look alike. Not proper states at all.
Did Guy Fawkes really look like those hideous masks in V is for Vendetta?
Yes. It was a documentary, after all. :dubious:
Well, southern England will be ablaze tonight, about 30 minutes after we light the bonfire we built at the local pub yesterday. The landlord had lots of old tables, renovation scraps, and pallets, plus a pile of tree trimmings. What he hadn’t realised was that behind the trees trimmings, was a whole heap more tree trimmings.
We had to move everything about 20 feet (we did half by hand, until the JCB turned up) and then stack the wood around. The pile is massive, and it’s going to smoke like anything for a while, then it will turn into a massive pillar of fire.
I climbed on top and placed an easy chair for the Guy. While posing for a quick picture (as you do), my son said “I’ll get mum”.
My reply… “no way, she’ll bring matches” :smack:
And when shown the picture, she made the same comment. 
Si
I guess he did as that was how all Brits looked in those days
Anyways, have you seen the price of fireworks??
Fucking hell, there’s a rocket, ONE rocket, for sale in the local shop, cost £25.
Also, summat called a “Multi explosion land based mortar” a snip at £30
You must be kidding, £25/£30 for about 30 secs of coloured sparks, on yer bike mush
Undergoing the annual fireworks bombardment right now. I wish all the best to the Brits for their Guy Fawkes – just wish, though, that it hadn’t been introduced down here as well.
chowder, £25-£30 should buy you more than “coloured sparks” - we typically get a nice big one-piece jobby to see the New Year in and it can last anything up to two minutes with multiple airbursts. I remember a Daily Wail article a few years back on the subject of the hideously dangerous pyrotechnics you can buy these days, and me and my mate reached the conclusion that our reaction was not “OMG ban these dreadful things at once!” so much as “We wants it, we wants it, precioussss!”. 
Well old friend at my age I no longer spend my dosh on fireworks.
Tonight I’ll stroll down to the local park, 10 mins walk away, and watch a really fantastic display…I wish I was about 10 again just for tonight 
New Years Eve, ah yes we do splash out a bit then, I’ve been known to squander upwards of 50p on sparklers
I don’t like the fireworks they sell in the shops nowadays - frighteningly large clusters of mortars, or rockets that look like propane cylinders. OK, I didn’t much like the old-fashioned ones that were all ‘silver fountain’, ‘golden shower’, 'pearl… well, you get the idea.
So we went to a professional display this year at the Hampshire Rose Bowl.
Well, we went there. We didn’t go in - we stood on the motorway bridge with several hundred other cheapskate families and watched the display from outside without paying. Ha Ha!
I don’t do fireworks any more. Our church had a free fireworks display and live concert last week (31st Oct) which was awesome (and really well attended, ~2500 people), and I’ll be down at the pub tonight to see our bonfire burn and fireworks set off. Should be a lot of fun.
One of the best shows I have seen was back in NZ. The local Medical Laboratory organised it at the Agricultural Showgrounds. Underneath the massive bonfire was all the out of date medical alcohol…
Si
The last fireworks display I was at, one of the mortar launchers fell over and shot several rockets into the crowd. They set fire to one bloke’s shirt, hit three others, and knocked over a nine-year-old child (minor burns only, luckily).
I love fireworks, and have travelled up to eight thousand miles to see a good display, but I’m now a fireworks snob, so tonight you’ll find me in the pub. If it isn’t New Year somewhere Asian, it probably ain’t worth watching.