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happy guy fawkes day

one of the few festivals really worth celebrating

the the do gooders and spoil sports had to step in

bonfires are banned most places

how canyou you be happy with a double happy

penny for the guy...
  • Profile picture of the author Geordie John
    I miss the days of collecting large amounts of wood and old furniture to host gigantic bonfires for Guy Fawkes... definitely not the safest activity to do as a youngster but still lot of fun...
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    • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
      Originally Posted by Geordie John View Post

      I miss the days of collecting large amounts of wood and old furniture to host gigantic bonfires for Guy Fawkes... definitely not the safest activity to do as a youngster but still lot of fun...
      and that is exactly why it was so much fun
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      • Profile picture of the author Geordie John
        Originally Posted by hardraysnight View Post

        and that is exactly why it was so much fun
        Yes indeed! One year we were banned from dong it and the local authories kept hauling away our bonfire materials, so we arranged on-masse to collect the stuff, horde it in our own yards, and haul it to the field were we always had it at the last minute... it's amazing what a community of kids can pull out at short notice!

        Not that i recommend kids going out and doing anything similar! If i caught my kids doing this i'd tan their behinds!
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        • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
          Originally Posted by Geordie John View Post

          Yes indeed! One year we were banned from dong it and the local authories kept hauling away our bonfire materials, so we arranged on-masse to collect the stuff, horde it in our own yards, and haul it to the field were we always had it at the last minute... it's amazing what a community of kids can pull out at short notice!

          Not that i recommend kids going out and doing anything similar! If i caught my kids doing this i'd tan their behinds!
          but here tanning hides is illegal too, outside of a tannery - no smacking laws, more dogooder rubbish
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  • Profile picture of the author ianbirch
    been to a display,the main one where i live is on saturday,bonfire,fireworks and burgers......
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  • Profile picture of the author HKSEO Jonbones
    Please explain the Guy Fawkes thing for those of us who didn't grow up in the UK

    I looked it up, but was lost until I did.

    Do you guys do trick or treating for Halloween?
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    • Profile picture of the author ianbirch
      Originally Posted by HKSEO Jonbones View Post

      Please explain the Guy Fawkes thing for those of us who didn't grow up in the UK

      I looked it up, but was lost until I did.

      Do you guys do trick or treating for Halloween?
      Guy fawkes night is mainly celebrated here in the uk. Its to do with the 1605 gun powder plot to blow up the house of lords. guy fawkes was a part of it and was arrested while guarding explosives that he and the others had placed beneath the house of lords.
      To Celebrating the fact that king james survived and the plot failed people lit bonfires all around London.
      Most towns and counties have huge bonfire parties with a large bonfire and a guy fawkes model in the middle with fireworks and music,food stands etc,

      Just found this:

      "Gunpowder Treason Day was exported by settlers to colonies around the world.Although initially the commemoration was paid scant attention, the arrest of two boys caught lighting bonfires on 5 November 1662 in boston suggests, in historian James Sharpe's view, that "an underground tradition of commemorating the Fifth of november existed in the usa".In parts of North America it was known as Pope Day, celebrated mainly in colonial new england, but also as far south as charlston. In Boston, founded in 1630 by Puritan settlers led by john winthrop, an early celebration was held in 1685, the same year that James II assumed the throne. Fifty years later, again in Boston, a local minister wrote "a Great number of people went over to Dorchester neck where at night they made a Great Bonfire and plaid off many fireworks",

      We do halloween and trick and treating but not in a big way
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  • Profile picture of the author HKSEO Jonbones
    ^^ Halloween Parties here in the states go just as hard as any college party, and these are grown adults acting a fool, and in the middle of the week no less--November 1st was Hangover Thursday here at the office
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