Guy Fawks Night

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Yes! it's "Guy Fawks Night" here in the UK..Fireworks going off all around me.. Tomorrow
i'll be picking up spent rockets from off my garden and in the street..some of those rocket sticks make great spruce bracings :D:D:D
 
If only we could be celebrating his success! King James was such a saucy monarch.
 
Had a bonnie in the garden tonight and up in flames went my old guitar solera from my first build with Cumpiano's book as the teacher. How liberating! Totally on uke building now!
 
Hi Tim,

Not celebrated on these shores, but I'll have a cold one
whilst burning some leaves.

Cheers.
 
Yes! it's "Guy Fawks Night" here in the UK..Fireworks going off all around me.. Tomorrow
i'll be picking up spent rockets from off my garden and in the street..some of those rocket sticks make great spruce bracings :D:D:D

Aloha Timbuck,
Forgive me, my knowledge is limited in that area...What is Guy Fawk's Night???
Is he a local Hero or something???What's the celebration about??Mahalo, MM Stan
 
Hi Stan,

Tims sleeping at this time no doubt, so I'll take the liberty to fill ya in.

Back 1605 this cat named Guy Faulks and his cronies were gonna blow up the
House of Parliment in merry olde England cause they didna like the Protestant thing goin on,
as Catholiscm was their thing. So they pack all this Gunpowder in the cellar and Guy is guarding it
well anyhow he gets caught. They torture him and he spills the beans like coffee on a dock in Kona.
Then they're gonna hang him but he escapes the noose by jumping off the scaffold, but they're gleeful as
when he hits the ground he breaks his neck. the end.
Now every Nov 5 bonfires and fireworks are the order of the day(and night) along with celebrations of course.
That's the cliff's note version, there's more but all unimportant.

Tim may add a fact or more, but now you can rest easy tonight.

Cheers.
 
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Hi Stan,

Tims sleeping at this time no doubt, so I'll take the liberty to fill ya in.

Back 1605 this cat named Guy Faulks and his cronies were gonna blow up the
House of Parliment in merry olde England cause they didna like the Protestant thing goin on,
as Catholiscm was their thing. So they pack all this Gunpowder in the cellar and Guy is guarding it
well anyhow he gets caught. They torture him and he spills the beans like coffee on a dock in Kona.
Then they're gonna hang him but he escapes the noose by jumping off the scaffold, but they're gleeful as
when he hits the ground he breaks his neck. the end.
Now every Nov 5 bonfires and fireworks are the order of the day(and night) along with celebrations of course.
That's the cliff's note version, there's more but all unimportant.

Tim may add a fact or more, but now you can rest easy tonight.

Cheers.

Mahalo Mr Bill for sharing your knowledge......
I've came across this info too..
Guy Fawkes is held on every November 5th..
Guy Fawkes night is also known as bonfire/firecracker/Bommy Night..
It marks the failure of the gunpowder plot.
The plot took place in the 17th century.....1605
The conspirators planned to destroy, The British Houses of Parliment
They hoped to assassinate King James VI & I
The penality the conspirators payed for their treason was....Hanged, drawn and quartered...
Quartered=Pull apart with four horses tied to their extremities..
When celebrated in the 13 colonies it was called Pope's Day....
I lived in Manhattan and Brookline Mass. and have never heard of this there..
Does anybody in the NE know if it is still held???
Sounds Groteque, but intresting... 36 barrels of gun powder?? Cheers...
 
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Good Morning all.:)

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
 
Mahalo Mr Bill for sharing your knowledge......
I've came across this info too..
Guy Fawkes is held on every November 5th..
Guy Fawkes night is also known as bonfire/firecracker/Bommy Night..
It marks the failure of the gunpowder plot.
The plot took place in the 17th century.....1605
The conspirators planned to destroy, The British Houses of Parliment
They hoped to assassinate King James VI & I
The penality the conspirators payed for their treason was....Hanged, drawn and quartered...
Quartered=Pull apart with four horses tied to their extremities..
When celebrated in the 13 colonies it was called Pope's Day....
I lived in Manhattan and Brookline Mass. and have never heard of this there..
Does anybody in the NE know if it is still held???
Sounds Groteque, but intresting... 36 barrels of gun powder?? Cheers...

Actually the King targeted for regicide was King James the First of England, who was also King James the Sixth of Scotland. (I bet he did a little dance when he inherited, sort of winning Lotto twice)
 
I had my bonfire the previous night and burnt all that Paduak, split and shake streaked yew, impossible South American wood that looked like mahogany but weighed a ton, rippled ash that I was saving thinking I might use it one day. It was still smoldering the following day. Halleluah!
 
Actually the King targeted for regicide was King James the First of England, who was also King James the Sixth of Scotland. (I bet he did a little dance when he inherited, sort of winning Lotto twice)

Mahalo Great Gazukes, I was Wondering about that one....Stan... I heard they are observing it on the weekend....wasn't there a religious conotation to this as Mr Bill stated..????
 
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As Saturday was so close to the 5th many folks will be celebrating the "The Death of the Guy" tonight as well...and as usual, being a civilised race of people we burn an effigy of him as a warning to anyone else who try's to blow us up.:D:D:D
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Down-under we used to celebrate it as 'Cracker Night'.

Around fifteen years ago the state government decided that we were an irresponsible lot and insisted that you get a licence before you could purchase any fireworks.

They then insisted that you need public liability insurance before you can get a licence... You can see where this is going....

Well now it is illegal to buy fireworks but at least we can all still buy pornography, makes you think doesn't it.
 
I do remember back to when I was a lad there would be a community bonfire with effigy and crackers. But I suppose being November and being Australia it is not such a hot idea considering the country's propensity to go up in flames, on the other hand it may have provided a much needed outlet for arsonists (or their traning ground??)
 
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