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5th november
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5. November 2005 @ 09:46 |
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lol ,i agree w/ you, a day off to do absolutly nothing who cares. It's like christmas, I'm an athiest but I'll sing carols until my mouth is dry if that means I get a few days off. I'm not sure, I know that King James was overtrown in the Glorious Revolution, so he couldn't have been too well like. But if he got hung then wouldn't that mean that they didnt' like this fawk guy and are celebrating his death? maybe someone from the UK will answer this for us.
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5. November 2005 @ 09:52 |
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It not really a holiday, honestly i don't have a clue what it is apart from a chance to set off fireworks, well were i come from it is. He was tortured then hanged, drawn, and quartered. The only possible reason i can see it being celebrated is because if he had accomplished what was planed then more than likely there would be no such thing as the "UK"
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5. November 2005 @ 11:10 |
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Just had some fireworks outside just now. It was quite cool, had about 30 of them!
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5. November 2005 @ 11:36 |
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i threw a fire cracker at a guy sleeping in the shop a while ago, it was quite cool......... only 1 of em !!! hehe
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5. November 2005 @ 12:07 |
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Were i come from people throw fireworks the size of small children at each other :D
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5. November 2005 @ 13:04 |
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hey,thats not nice.you could hurt someone doing that.why cant the people of today find kinder,gentler ways of playing with each other? like throwing marshmallows instead of fireworks...yeah right!
i once lived in a house that was on a hill and a street ran in front of my house.i lit a bottle rocket and then dropped it flat on the ground so it would take off along the ground like a rocket car or something.it was pointed straight at the road.it slipped my mind that the street was there as my house is off from the road a little bit.but that sucker took off across the street.and a second after it past the street a car came by with the window open.if i would have lit that bottle rocket a second later it definitely would have went into that car and exploded.and i would have been in deep sh*t.so the moral of the story is..ah...um...dont be stupid.yeah thats it.
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5. November 2005 @ 13:22 |
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its always good and fun till someone gets hurt........ just blame someone else..
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6. November 2005 @ 08:19 |
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400 years ago the queen died without having any babies, so the thrown gets passed to her distant cousin, king james the sixth of scotland and now also king james the first of england. many people were angred at the fact that a king of scotland was ruling the english throne, so guy and his mates decide to polt against him, they let 2 more peole in on it, so theres a total of six.
they are trying to dig a tunnel to under the throne of the house of lords, but hear a noise in the store room above, its a dude moving his stuff out, so they rent ous the space ( which is directly under the throne ) and put 36 barrells of gun-powder under it and cover them with hay.
unfortunatly 1 of the gamg leaks out the plot and somehow the king finds out. as guy fawks is going to light the fuse the king ordered a search of the store room for explsives ( he siad it was ordered on the kings wisdom ) so guy gets caught, grasses in his mates, they all get tortured and killed. the king ordered from that day on that november the 5th, people all over the country would light bon-fires to celebrate the kings survival of an assasination attempt.
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6. November 2005 @ 10:45 |
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If the people hated him then why are you celebrating his survival, shouldn't you be celebrating Guy's martyism. And is this the same James that was over thrown in the glorious revolutiojn?
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6. November 2005 @ 11:41 |
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what you trying to do? turn a holiday into political unrest?
sowing the seeds of anarchy are we?})
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6. November 2005 @ 11:50 |
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Oh right! This from the Bad Religion Fan?!
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6. November 2005 @ 12:20 |
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hey,alittle anarchy never hurt anyone.:p
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7. November 2005 @ 01:56 |
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"Fireworks are always attractive, but Bonfire Night here is one of the last bastions of anti-Catholic sentiment in the United Kingdom"
A quote from another thread iv been reading on the subject and not my personal view. I do however find it strange that we in the UK celebrate the death of Fawks.
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400 years ago the queen died without having any babies, so the thrown gets passed to her distant cousin, king james the sixth of scotland and now also king james the first of england. many people were angred at the fact that a king of scotland was ruling the english throne, so guy and his mates decide to polt against him, they let 2 more peole in on it, so theres a total of six.
eh thats not exactly right mate, the catholic people of the time were being brutally treated by the crown thats why the plot to kill the king developed.
To be honest i like the pretty lights of the fireworks but thought id chuck that in for debate.
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7. November 2005 @ 06:28 |
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this guy fawkes holiday reasoning thing is getting educational.time to pull up a chair and learn something.
now can anyone explain to me why we hunt for easter eggs on easter?
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7. November 2005 @ 13:21 |
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That's easy b/c on the 10th day God created egg laying rabbits.
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7. November 2005 @ 14:38 |
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you're a wealth of knowledge.now tell me why people pinch each other for not wearing green on st. patty's day?why santa claus goes down the chimney and tracks soot all over the house?he could use the front door.as if somebody is gonna call the cops on santa.and theres that thing with the tooth fairy.what in the hell does she do with all those teeth?like if i had a big ol'bag of teeth laying around somebody's not gonna think im some kind of freak.
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7. November 2005 @ 15:02 |
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Come on man!!!...give me a challenge.
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now tell me why people pinch each other for not wearing green on st. patty's day
The Cathlics resent protestants for all the persecution but they can't do anythiing about it so they "pinch" ppl and say it's tradition
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why santa claus goes down the chimney and tracks soot all over the house?he could use the front door.as if somebody is gonna call the cops on santa
It's really simple, he's a Peeping Tom, or a Peeping Nick rather. We all know that peeping isn't about looking at ppl and getting off on it. It's about looking at someone w/o there knowledge.
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and theres that thing with the tooth fairy.what in the hell does she do with all those teeth?
She gives them to Santa Claus, who in turn, gives them to Hillbillies w/ missing teeth for christmas. (See how I connected the 2?)
And there you go the answer to some of life's most puzzleling mysteries.
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7. November 2005 @ 15:42 |
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now my life seems complete.no more sleepless nights.:)
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7. November 2005 @ 15:50 |
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And there you go the answer to some of life's most puzzleling mysteries.
Anyone actually figure out what happens to the lost sock in the laundry?
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7. November 2005 @ 15:50 |
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You are very welcome. I do what I can. Would you like to know the meaning of life now?
lol I can't tell you that, made a promise to god or satan...I forget.
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7. November 2005 @ 19:40 |
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no i dont need to know the meaning of life.im just happy to know the hillbillies are getting their teeth back.so there can be love,peace and a full set of teeth here on earth,amen.
as for the socks,i have a theory and i think glueeater might already know this one.its a no brainer,santa's little helpers takes them.and in return santa hangs them by the chimney and fills them with goodies for all the good little boys and girls.so it seems santa is behind alot of unexplainable phenomenons/traditions.
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7. November 2005 @ 21:20 |
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see! we need better holidays in the USA dammit! you guys get cool days about people almost getting blown up and we get freakin groundhog day! yes an all wise weather predicting giant rat.
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7. November 2005 @ 22:58 |
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that ground hog sure has a gift for predicting the weather.and i know who gave it that gift.thats right,the old gift giver himself....SANTA!
"MWAHAHAHA....MWAHAHAHA!"
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8. November 2005 @ 15:01 |
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Thank you Santa for making my dreams of becoming President possible
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8. November 2005 @ 16:45 |
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Tooth fairies? Easter bunnies? Santa clause?
What about the Great Pumpkin? She does exist!!!!!!!!!
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