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Prospero · Post by **Prospero** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:12 pm

...the fifth of November. Happy Guy Fawkes day to you crazy Brits out there. Enjoy your burning effigies and fireworks. Us Americans have to wait a little bit for our next holiday...

Werechicken · Post by **Werechicken** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:18 pm

Yes we're probably one of the few countries which celebrate the date a revolution DIDN'T happen and ignore the date a revolution actually took place...

Kits · Post by **Kits** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:58 pm

Shit who says we can't celebrate as well? Any reason to burn things and get drunk is reason enough for me.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:09 pm

Motherfucking motherfuckers setting off all sorts of fucking fireworks outside.
I'm for fucking banning them.

RadicalDreamer · Post by **RadicalDreamer** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:37 pm

[quote="Rorschach";p="689395"]Motherfucking motherfuckers setting off all sorts of fucking fireworks outside.
I'm for fucking banning them.[/quote]

Fuck that. Get some of your own. Bigger ones. Make them go away.

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:18 pm

Wasn't Guy Fawkes drawn and quartered, not burned?

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:24 pm

The fireworks represent the attempted explosion of Parliament, IIRC.

adciv · Post by **adciv** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:46 pm

[quote="gravity";p="689413"]Wasn't Guy Fawkes drawn and quartered, not burned?[/quote]

On January 31, Fawkes, Winter, and a number of others implicated in the conspiracy were taken to Old Palace Yard in Westminster, in front of the scene of the intended crime, where they were hanged, drawn and quartered.

Fawkes, though weakened by torture, cheated the executioners. When he was to be hanged until almost dead, he jumped from the gallows, so his neck broke and he died, thus avoiding the gruesome later part of this form of execution. A co-conspirator, Robert Keyes, had attempted the same trick, but unfortunately for him the rope broke, so he was drawn fully conscious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

Terrik · Post by **Terrik** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:15 am

I looked up what is exactly involved when someone is drawn and quarted and....dang. That has to hurt.

Deacon · Post by **Deacon** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:51 am

See Wikipedia for more info.

Terrik · Post by **Terrik** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:07 am

People are most creative when thinking up ways to kill each other

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