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Move Bonfire Night To 31st January, which
after all is the day that Guy Fawkes was, after
eventual capture and sentencing (on the
12th, I believe) to be hung, drawn and
quartered, which occured on the 31st of
January 1606.
The plot was foiled November 5th
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Gunpowder_Plot
...and we are celebrating the aversion of Parliamentary disaster, not the capture, sentencing or execution of the plotters. [DrCurry, Jan 12 2006]
Now look what you've started -
Bunfire_20Night
[normzone, Jan 18 2006]
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The problem there is shops are only allowed to sell fireworks for 2 weeks leading up to the 5th of November...
We'd need to store 'em! |
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MO, is that true? round here they are exploding for Divali much earlier than the 5th. |
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Bonfire Night was an attempt by the Puritans to suppress Halloween. It seems to have worked, too, at least until recently. |
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You want to suppress what? Martin Luther King Day? St. Valentine's Day? Besides, the nights are already long enough by November, and January is too cold. |
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Anyway, you're missing the point. Fishbone. |
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Oh, OK - I thought this was going to be a suggestion that we have a special night of the year when we light bonfires which we then move around, perhaps by carrying them on some kind of fireproof thing. |
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The 31st might upset some Royalists, who could think we were celebrating the execution of Charles I (James I's son) on the 30th January. |
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DrCurry, - I certainly take your point(s). I was primarily thinking of distributing the fun and jollity of celebrating the ripping apart by horse-power of a freshly killed body, to an otherwise empty window of the calendar. |
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Yeah. move it to Germany. I miss bonfire night. |
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Drag it through France on it's way. |
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Having lived abroad, I've found that when you try to explain bonfire night to non-UKians, I've always been met with confused, and slightly worried expressions. I think it's the whole burning in effigy of a catholic dissenter part that normally does it - it's all a bit Wikka Man - perhaps Ian is right, and a new festival where we rip apart a sack full of entrails ("Penny for the entrails guv?") might be easier to explain to the outside world. |
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Just tell them it's like burning flags. |
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Here at the 'bakery, we could have bunfire night ! |
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