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Happy Guy Fawkes' Night!

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by jaded empath, Nov 6, 2005.

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    Well, who's gonna be buring the mastermind of the 'Gunpowder Plot' in effigy tonight?

    {Historical note: see here. }

    Here in Newfoundland we really haven't kept the original significance of the what we call "Bonfire Night" in mind - we just have a few public bonfires (for warmth this year; our first snowfall in happening today! :lol: )

    So, I enjoyed saying to customers as they left "and have a happy Gunpowder Plot Day!" and then explaining who Guy Fawkes was and what was going on behind the 'holiday'; got a fair number of jaws to drop from unsuspecting people. Never got much in tips, tho.... :D
     
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    Yeah, the fireworks were going off big-time in our neighbourhood last night. The Chinese certainly made a a good buck out of everybody this year. Actually, there seemed to be some good new fireworks this year that I had not seen before, but they did wake the kid up so that was not so flash. Anyway, I don't have enough spare cash any more to spend on fireworks.
     
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    We were driving home last night--we live in rural southeastern Ohio--and were astounded to see fireworks exploding in the sky, major 3 inch shells, I think, being fired from a field twenty miles from any sizeable town. Some Brit thousands of miles from home was celebrating Guy Fawlkes Day.
     
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    Just don't scare all the cats :D
     
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    The fireworks scare my dog something terrible. She hates the things, they send her mental. She barks her head off and won't listen to me when I shout at her. It's strange because other times she's the most mild mannered dog ever and always does as she's told.
     
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    Well, it's a few days late, but here's how Nfld. did with 'Bonfire Night'.

    Well below expected attendance at public bonfires, and one abandoned house, one semi-trailer and several dumbsters/tips destroyed by fire. T'would seem that 'the bad seeds' around here take the celebration and go a get destructive, much like Detroit always used to have MAJOR problems on 'Hell Night' (Oct. 31).

    But that list is SMALL compared to some years in the past, even for a 'cozy little town' of 150,000. I'm guessing the overall 'Newfie apathy' is boring into even the troublemakers' will to act. :heh:
     
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    Indeed HB, I was most surprised to see Fireworks on sale in NZ. We were at Waitomo caves on the 5th, and were treated to a number of displays through the camper-van windows.
     
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    Ah, free fireworks through the campervan window. Lovely.
     
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