[Alex Murphy]

[mnehring]

Remember Remember, Burning Fawkes (the Terrorist) in Effigy.

He is not one to be celebrated.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Bti_FWdDE&feature=related

[mnehring]

I should also add, he has become the symbol of 4Chan social hackers- Epic Fail Guy in their project Chanology, mocking Scientologists, Ron Paul Supporters, and all sorts of things they choose to mess with.

[itsthejourney]

Today is also the day Ayers and his radicals can celebrate bombing of government buildings as the sheeple worship them from below.

[Dawn531]

We used to live in the Caymans. We always had “bangers and mash” (sausanges w/mashed potatoes) on Guy Fawkes Day, I guess it’s a tradition.

[NonValueAdded]

IIRC, Guy Fawkes day or Pope's day played a role in the igniting of the American Revolution. The celebration always turned into a rumble between the North End and South End gangs in Colonial Boston until one year, Samuel Adams managed to turn the gangs' anger away from each other and towards the hated occupiers. Sam was a failure at most of what he did but he was a damned good community organizer.

See: http://thecapitalscot.com/pastfeatures/gfawkes.html. The Urban Crucible is a very interesting read.

[Eye of Unk]

[The_Reader_David]

The English speaking people are curious lot. We all let off fireworks to commemorate acts of treason against the British Crown: in Britain, Australia and New Zealand on the fifth of November to commemorate an unsuccessful one, in America on the fourth of July to commemorate one which proved successful.

[vamoose]

November 5, 1955
The day the Flux Capacitor was invented