Happy Guy Fawkes Day

[MrScorpio]

Try not to burn something down, ok?

[Liberal Left]

1. Yeah!

Love Guy Fawkes.

[pinboy3niner]

2. I wonder...

Has anyone ever thought of naming a variety of cannabis 'Gunplowder Pot'?

Happy Guy Fawkes Day! :toast:

[reggie the dog]

10. so long as the shit blows my mind...

perhaps that is what i will name a cross i am gonna do next year. 100% sativa "durban poison" from south africa mixed with 100% old school feral sativa called "zamal" from the french indian ocean department called Reunion Island"........ durban harvests in mid september, zamal in late december.... hunting season starts mid september and the helicopters come in october. zamal grows FUCKING HUGE LIKE 15 FEET TALL HUGE, durban just 7 feet or so...... you see where this is going....... i wants me some 15 foot tall fruit sativa that harvests in mid september before the hunters and coppers are even out in them woods over yonder

[Rixtang]

3. First post

And a Happy Guy Fawkes to you as well. I am 55 today and have
put face book behind me. These types of forums are where I
shall spend my free time. 

[eShirl]

5. Happy birthday!

:party: :donut: <--- we don't have a cake icon but here's a doughnut

[Rixtang]

7. Thank you..

..kindly. This is one more thing that I am beginning to love
about this site!! 

[Le Taz Hot]

11. It's your birthday! Have a cupcake!

(Can you tell I was singing?) Happy B'day from another 55 year-old (as of July). Welcome to DU. We have our share of knee-jerkers, just like any other site, but sprinkled in between the not-the-brightest-bulb-in-the-drawer are some amazingly gifted writers who offer wonderful insights and depth of thought. It takes awhile to sift them out but after awhile it will get to be second nature.

Again, welcome! :hi:

[Denninmi]

4. Thank you.

Same to you.

I'll have to remember to E-mail that message to my niece who lives in England. I don't know whether she and her family really do much to "observe" it or not -- she's American, her husband is English.

It's also the day to have Parkin, which is basically a type of gingerbread made with a fair amount of oatmeal. It's dark, sweet, chewy, and spicy, kind of like a gingerbread granola bar. I made some last year just to try it, and it was pretty good. A traditional food for GFD in northern England.

[eShirl]

6. Remember, remember

I forgot what I was supposed to remember...

[pinboy3niner]

15. "Remember, remember the fifth of November"

Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot...

[Canuckistanian]

8. I forgot

Shame on me.

[reggie the dog]

9. something is seriously wrong with this country

i loved the guy fawkes day celebration in v for vandetta.........

celebrating it sat. with the kids and my friends from england wales and scotland.....(us english speakers make friends within our own linguistic groups when we go abroad, i explained this to my anti immigrant relatives and i think they hate me more now that when i was just a liberal pot head.....)

[Bucky]

12. Reality check: Guy Fawkes was a teabagger

He was pissed about his side losing in politics, so he attempted to murder the entire Parliament. And his main beef was that the country wasn't Catholic and didn't practice blind loyalty to the Pope. Honestly, people, being smart really is better than throwing a temper tantrum.




































Mmmm, beeeeefff....

[surrealAmerican]

13. ... but we're celebrating his failure...

... like we would the failure of teabagger terrorists.

[Bucky]

16. ... but they didn't fail. They kicked our asses.

The English celebrate his plot blowing up (so to speak). Americans, like the doofi we are, only know what they saw in that silly little misanthropic movie and think Guy was a hero, like Rambo with a blunderbuss. Argh, there aren't enough walls for me to bang my head against.

[begin_within]

14. The only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions.

We salute you Guy!

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. It's alright,m the London firefighters called off their strike for today

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/04/firefighters-call-off-strike-bonfire-night