Guy Fawkes Night

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Anyone go out enjoy bonfire tonight? Let me live vicarious through your fun, lol.
 
I don't think Americans celebrate Guy Fawkes day.

My avatar is a reference to the movie V For Vendetta. I dunno why V chose a Guy Fawkes mask. I guess it's because V is English and Guy Fawkes is an English hero and he went against the parliament and made a statement for his people and that's why V chose to wear a Guy Fawkes mask. :dunno:
 
No?? Really?? We always have bonfire, get very drunk, for Guy Fawkes Night. Since I can remember!
 
Really confuse now! Every Canadian I know celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. News even show how fire brigade St Johns Nfld had extra staff work tonight for it.
 
Do you burn Fawkes in effigy in these bonfires?
 
Never heard of that holiday. Looks like a fun one with a bonfire.
 
I always thought it was kind of weird to celebrate the failed attempt of a lunatic to kill and maim people . . . :dunno:
 
Gee Sunny, your celebrations seem to have a common theme... (hick)
 
Sunshine said:
Really confuse now! Every Canadian I know celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. News even show how fire brigade St Johns Nfld had extra staff work tonight for it.
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We don't celebrate it here. I know they do celebrate it in Newfoundland and Labrador though.
 
By the way, people don't really celebrate the legacy of Guy Fawkes. They often use the so-called holiday as an excuse to have a bonfire and get drunk like a skunk.

It's pathetic, really.
 
TheWriteAlex said:
I always thought it was kind of weird to celebrate the failed attempt of a lunatic to kill and maim people . . . :dunno:
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From what I have read just recently, I think it is a celebration of his arrest or capture for guarding the explosives meant to miam King James I. From what I read, the citizens in London lit bonfires to celebrate for the plot's failure.
 
Banjo said:
We don't celebrate it here. I know they do celebrate it in Newfoundland and Labrador though.
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My family from Newfiundland so maybe this explain it.

Banjo said:
By the way, people don't really celebrate the legacy of Guy Fawkes. They often use the so-called holiday as an excuse to have a bonfire and get drunk like a skunk.

It's pathetic, really.
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Gee, thanks.
 
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