"Remember, remember the Fifth of November.......

[Reverend Joe]

I have not heard of this holiday... still, I think I prefer Oktoberfest. Not a drop of German in me, but I love it anyway. (Add to that the fact that I am incapable of obtaining a hangover... )

[GoreBag]

My workplace is having a grand opening for the expansion on Guy Fawkes' Day. The English people who will come in will surely pepper me with jokes as they buy British food...

[Duke of Gloucester]

I have deleted my original post because it does not conform with Beriut's request. I'll PM him instead.

[Divinus Arma]

Ah yes... the exploding of fireworks, the eating of hot-dogs, and the drinking of beer. U.S. Independance Day is... Wait? Guy Fawk? huh?

Ah, Bonfire night. An evening of cheap frankfurter hotdogs, searing fireworks, and cheap beer. No other celebration like it.

Seems pretty darn close to me. We call it the 4th of July.

[InsaneApache]

No you don't.....you call it pope day.

BTW we had this discussion last year, but for the 'newer' members

Here



Here is an extract of the oath of allegiance from the colonists at Jamestown...

"I......M......doe trulie and sincerely acknowledge. professe testifie and declare in my Conscience before God & the world, That our Soveraigne Lord King James ys lawfull and rightful King of Great Britaine and of the Colony of Virginia, and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries. And that ye pope neither of himselfe, nor by any Authoretie of the Church or See of Rome, or by any other meanes (with any other) hath any power or authoritie to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majesties Dominions, or to authorise any forreine prince, to invade or anoy him in his Countries, or to discharge any of his subjectes of ther Allegeance and obedience to his Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to beare armes, raise, tumult, or to offer any violence, or hurt to his Majesties royall person, state, Goverment, or to any of his Majesties subjectes within his Majesties Dominions.

[Captain Fishpants]

The really odd thing, when you think about it, is that November 5 is a celebration of a failed coup attempt. Every other nation in the world (unless I'm completely wrong) has celebrations for the day when the coup succeeded, or the old colonial order left the place to a native government, or someone who was hated was overthrown.

But we Brits stand about in the damp night, and celebrate a cocked-up plotting against a 'foreign' (well, Scottish in England, but that was foreign then) King that no one really liked at the time.

[King Henry V]

No, we are celebrating that the plot failed. Though James was indeed a Scot, the destruction of King and Parliament would most likely have brought a rebellion at the least, civil war and foreign invasion at the worst.

[Mikeus Caesar]

But we Brits stand about in the damp night, and celebrate a cocked-up plotting against a 'foreign' (well, Scottish in England, but that was foreign then) King that no one really liked at the time.

Nothing better than an entire night dedicated to failure.