Bonfire night.

**InsaneApache** · 11-05-2010, 11:13

Yep, it's here again.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder treason and plot.

I see no reason, why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

http://www.rhymes.org.uk/remember_re...h_november.htm

I got an invite to a firework party tonight. One of the lads has got his hands on some fine explosive devices and we're going to blow them up. For fun.

Lots of beer, parkin, treacle toffee and baked potatos. Bring it on.

**al Roumi** · 11-05-2010, 12:50

I got an invite to a fireworks display for the 5th too. It's all a bit hush-hush, meant to be a big surprise for the neighbours as it's being held right on the thames, I've been asked to help move some of the powder kegs and set things up... oh, wait.

**Rhyfelwyr** · 11-05-2010, 15:01

Don't forget to strap different things to the rockets, and put some down some drains, and detonate one of the massive ones (the 'mine' as we had) in a pumpkin if you've got one hanging about from halloween.

What you shouldn't do is aim them at trees, try to do things too quickly and knock one over smashing a distant conservatory, or have one hit off your roof and then slide down and land on your head (yes, I'm an idiot).

**gaelic cowboy** · 11-05-2010, 15:48

Some guys in my old school a few year back made there own rockets and explosives(don't ask it's better not too) and the ended up completely demolishing a toilet cubicle.

What happened was the rocket was threw in to the jacks for the laugh, it shot up an hit the ceiling and came back down into the the bowl kaboom.

**al Roumi** · 11-05-2010, 16:02

Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

Some guys in my old school a few year back made there own rockets and explosives(don't ask it's better not too)

Gosh, that certainly challenges some of the derogatory stereotypes of Irish people.

**Kagemusha** · 11-05-2010, 16:05

Tomorrow in our calendar is the pyhäin päivä, which is the halloween.Its also my birthday.

**gaelic cowboy** · 11-05-2010, 16:10

Originally Posted by alh_p

Gosh, that certainly challenges some of the derogatory stereotypes of Irish people.

They were the kind of fellas who would put sand and cement down a jacks for the laugh, then they would stand watching the school handyman trying to figure out why the toilet would not flush.

Nowadays they are pillars of society etc etc and we all have a laugh remembering the craic, things never seem so serious in retrospect.

**Motep** · 11-07-2010, 01:18

As an american....the best thing I got out of yesterday was a guido reference. : /

**gaelic cowboy** · 11-07-2010, 01:33

eh??

**rajpoot** · 11-07-2010, 06:32

I'm two days late to this thread, but this time around by rare co-incidence, our festival of Diwali fell on the 5th of November too. Was in Delhi, so we had fireworks too....although the city was so full smoke that by 1 am you'd have thought that it was winter fog.