Guy Fawkes Day

Don’t you Remember,
The Fifth of November,
‘Twas Gunpowder Treason Day,
I let off my gun,
And made’em all run.
And Stole all their Bonfire away. (1742)

It’s party time somewhere!

Comments

9 responses to “Guy Fawkes Day”

  1. Retired Navy

    1605

    http://www.rhymes.org.uk/remember_remember_the_5th_november.htm

    “…the truth is there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?”

    Yup – there is.

  2. Big Don

    Gotta love the commie sympathizer hippies with Guy Fawkes masks… The irony of the haters of Christianity wearing masks of a man who wanted a theocracy…

  3. CI

    @2 – That’s because most people these days get their recognition of history from pop culture and political ideology.

  4. NR Pax

    They get about as far as him trying to blow up a government building and disregard everything else.

  5. Tommy

    To quote Zombie:

    “I’ve always wondered this: How hypocritical is it to wear a plastic toy, designed and licensed by the Warner Brothers corporation, and manufactured in a polluting slave-labor Chinese factory, to advertise a mainstream Hollywood film, starring overpaid actors, the profits from which will go to corporate shareholders, and yet you think that by doing this you’re somehow anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian?”

  6. 2ed Generation Marine (Honorably Discharged)

    Don’t condone the behavior, however they are making a valid
    point. Remember, our country was founded in revolution. VIVA
    LA REVOLUTIONE POUR DES ETATS-UNIS D’AMERIQUE! SEMPER FIDELIS

  7. Tommy

    FORGET Guy Faux Day!!!

    A much more significant event happened on this day 56 years ago.

    http://m.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/11/1105back-to-the-future/

  8. Cedo Alteram

    How does the old pun go? Guy Fawkes was the last man with noble intentions on his way to Parliament.

  9. Cedo Alteram

    Or something to that effect.