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Pitchforks and Torches Day
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Scene: Winter Solstice, 5pm. Everyone heading for the trains/buses/ferries on their way home from work in the gloaming, each carrying a lit torch and a pitchfork.

There's a light, over at the...


UnaBubba, Mar 01 2002


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       ...South-West Trains head office (everyone knows this contains evil)

mcscotland, Mar 01 2002
  

       gloaming is at 3.45 on the winter solstice where I live. Wouldn't this be funnier if it occurred on various random days all throughout the year? perhaps organised by the trade unions to ensure a reasonably high turnout.

sappho, Mar 01 2002
  

       UpHellyAa. Perhaps the Shetlanders have baked this already?

mcscotland, Mar 01 2002
  

       "The darkness must go
Down the river of night's dreaming
Flow morphia slow
Let the sun and light come streaming
Into my life, into my life"
  

       Croissant! If only because I was in need of a new song to hum today....

runforrestrun, Mar 01 2002
  

       Have you ever tried getting on a bus while carrying a lit torch and a pitchfork?

angel, Mar 01 2002
  

       No fun unless we get to burn down/kill something/someone.

pottedstu, Mar 01 2002
  

       The fire alarms in the Underground would all go off, too. Imagine the racket... Excellent idea!

herilane, Mar 01 2002
  

       "Fire bad!" - waugenstein's monster

waugsqueke, Mar 01 2002
  

       Okay, rubber pitchforks and battery operated torches.   

       And it should be an all-day thing; something that gets repeated over and over until a symbolic 'monster' is turned over to the crowd. Employees should gather outside the bosses office and grumble until he comes out with a box of doughnuts. Crowd around the parking attendant until he 'releases' the cars. Board the bus and demand to be taken to Transylvania. Etc.

phoenix, Mar 01 2002
  

       Unaware of the new tradition, hunchbacks fire up their smelting pots . . .

quarterbaker, Mar 01 2002
  

       Obligatory "Fire! Fire! I am Cornholio!" Post

thumbwax, Mar 01 2002
  

       every day is pitchforks and torches day. Except when it's ducking and burning day. They're all witches you know.

notripe, Mar 03 2002
  

       Except for the trolls...

phoenix, Mar 03 2002
  

       was that trolling? talk about give a troll a bad name and burn him...

notripe, Mar 03 2002
  

       I imagine there would be fewer suicide bombers, if everyone was carrying a pitchfork.

UnaBubba, Jul 23 2005
  


 
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