Happy Guy Fawkes day England! =D

[Doombot]

Hope you have a blast... uh... I mean a good time.

[BlueCross]

This is SO weird!  We did the same thing almost exactly a year ago!

[Doombot]

This is SO weird!  We did the same thing almost exactly a year ago!

We did?

Come on Bot... Remember! Remember...

Fifth of November?

[Na_Day]

Come on Bot... Remember! Remember...

Fifth of November?

Heh Heh.  I know the whole bit, not just the V for vendetta version.

Of course, the full version is rather insulting to the pope, anyone remotely catholic, and modern sensibilities, so I'll refrain from saying it here.

Unless, of course, people really want me to.

[AcdQueen89]

please

[Na_Day]

please

Don't say I didn't warn you.
Also, I admit to looking up the words for the sake of being correct, since it's been a while since I heard it sung all the way through.  I did take the time, however, to fill in the words taken out. 

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
the gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see of 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!

(Now, the part you'll never hear in civilized society.)

A penny loaf to feed the Pope, a farthing of cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down, a faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar, burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head, then we'll say ol' Pope is dead!

[Pipboy 2000]

whats going on?

[AcdQueen89]

dont worry. i'm still lost too.

[The SysMan]

This year was spent the same way every year.
With me sticking my head out my window telling the neighbours to shut up and go to hell.
>.>
<.<

Yeah, I get grumpy when no one lets me light stuff on fire.

[Na_Day]

whats going on?

I merely sited, as requested, the full Guy Fawkes rhyme.  Something which should never be done in public, or without at least a sense of 'Oh my god! Our ancestors were so ignorant!' when it is stated.

As for the day, it was this day in 1608? (I think, not sure) that Mr Guy Falkes and a group of other catholics, upset at their persecution and disregarding of thier rights by the government,  were caught ready to blow up parlament with almost a ton of gunpowder. (I was told moments before, once, but I believe that to be hype and exaggeration.)  As such, england celebrates it's continued existence (like the Fourth of July), and others commemorate the late Guy Falkes for standing up against Tyrants and Tyranny.

V for Vendetta brought about a renewed surge in interest on the subject, since the hero V wears a Guy Falkes mask and mirrors his actions on the famed night of November the 5th.

[A.S.S.R.]

I really wish he had gotten away with it.

Not that I have anything against the protestants or the British parliamentary tradition, but having a ton of gunpowder blowing people to bits would've made for some awesome reading in history class. Every couple of years, Hollywood could release some terrible movie on the whole deal, showing off the progress of SFX in making exaggerated, slow-motion explosions.

[Pipboy 2000]

whats going on? 

[Doombot]

I really wish he had gotten away with it.

Not that I have anything against the protestants or the British parliamentary tradition, but having a ton of gunpowder blowing people to bits would've made for some awesome reading in history class.

Next... we'll read about someone who ALMOST did something amazing. He ALMOST blew up Parliament. But first... he's a story of someone who almost discovered America. Christopher's lessor known brother Billy Columbus.

[Loveshack]

Ah, Guy Fawkes; the only man to enter Parlaiment with honorable intentions.

Unfortunately, being an intermittently uncultured American means that when someone mentions Guy Fawkes to me; I can't go more than five seconds without thinking how much cooler it would have been if instead of barrels of gunpowder, he had used a subway car full of gelignite.

That, and, if at his hanging, he'd fallen through the trapdoor, swung for a few seconds, and then back-flipped up through the trapdoor and had a really kick-ass knife fight where he killed a bunch of beefeaters while under a hail of fully automatic flintlock musket fire.  Man, when my supervillain career gets to that Stalin-esque point where I'm rewriting history books, Guy Fawkes is going to come out looking like a total G.  (Or is that V?)

[The SysMan]

fully automatic flintlock musket fire.

YOU HURT MY BRAAAAIIINN!!
>.<