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To: Lakeside Granny

Thanks, notice how things are staring to come out once we hit November? Let’s hope it continues.

Will something go on in England tomorrow?

https://potw.org/archive/potw405.html

English Folk Verse (c.1870)
The Fifth of November

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.
But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

Perhaps most widely known in America from its use in the movie V for Vendetta, versions of the above poem have been wide spread in England for centuries. They celebrate the foiling of (Catholic) Guy Fawkes’s attempt to blow up (Protestant controlled) England’s House of Parliament on November 5th, 1605. Known variously as Guy Fawkes Day, Gunpowder Treason Day, and Fireworks Night, the November 5th celebrations in some time periods included the burning of the Pope or Guy Fawkes in effigy.


1,035 posted on 11/04/2023 12:06:48 PM PDT by STARLIT (`There are two moments in life..those you miss and those you seize)
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To: STARLIT

French Catholics pray across the street from the church a priest was knifed to death by a Rwandan migrant - already under investigation for burning Catholic churches.

The alpha male of the group has had it with the migrant mocking them. pic.twitter.com/u5wqqCYNHa— Dane (@UltraDane) November 3, 2023


1,037 posted on 11/04/2023 12:21:01 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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