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This topic rated "R" before you go any further!!! lol

Well, today is my favourite holiday, or it used to be when I was living in England. November 5th was the date back in history when in the early 1600's "Guy Fawks" tried to blow up Parliament with a huge amount of gunpowder. Well, he didn't succeed and was caught and executed by traditional methods...... (in those days) hung drawn and quartered, before being burnt at the steak! Yummy! (Any Braveheart Fans??). Well every year after that on November 5th we celebrate it with fireworks (just like July 4th) and a huge bonfire with a "Guy Fawks" dressed up in clothing on a steak in the middle of the fire!! I know that just sounds wrong and morbid!! lol But... it was so cool. So tonight, everywhere in England will be just like July 4th! I miss it! Oh, I forgot to mention fantastic BBQ's also!! lol

Hmmm, never heard of this before. But it sounds interesting.

You have a BBQ after roasting a guy over fire????? :o

(J/K, I know better)

Yeah!! Ribs!!! LOL!!!

I told you it sounds morbid!! Hey, I need some backup here!! Anyone out there from UK?!?!?! Or Australia!! lol

Oh, Don't you remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot..."

In 1605, Guy (or Guido) Fawkes and a small group of English Catholics tried to bring down the English government by filling the basement of Parliament with gunpowder, and igniting it while the new Stuart King, James I, was to have been addressing both Houses.

The plot was discovered, and Fawkes and a few others were captured. Fawkes was brought before James I, and when the King asked him why he and his fellows tried this, Fawkes replied, "Desperate disease requires desperate remedy."...a reference to the displacement in England of the rights and privileges once held by the now-minority Catholics in James' realm.

Fawkes and his co-conspirators suffered death as mentioned above, but the Catholics as a whole didn't have their freedom of religion restored for the next 280 years in England.

There you have it...

I bet no one else tried that same stunt after seeing the hanging/burning at the stake. Capital punishment, especially done before an audience, is a great crime deterrant, in my opinion. I say bring it back!

Pretty neat that England celebrates this day.

mrschad wrote:I bet no one else tried that same stunt after seeing the hanging/burning at the stake. Capital punishment, especially done before an audience, is a great crime deterrant, in my opinion. I say bring it back!

Pretty neat that England celebrates this day.

I agree 100%!! I betcha crime would cease to exist if it were brought back. Believe it or not, criminals have more rights than victims do. Time for a change!!