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Gunpowder Day
« on: November 05, 2011, 02:21:22 AM »
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holla boys, Holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2011, 06:04:43 AM »
Thanks for the reminder...It's amazing how many of the older traditional holidays we have forgotten...
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2011, 10:53:47 AM »
SUBJOE. Thanks, can't remember ever knowing that. POWDERMAN.  ;D ;D
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2011, 11:30:26 AM »
Quote from: powderman on November 05, 2011, 10:53:47 AM
SUBJOE. Thanks, can't remember ever knowing that. POWDERMAN.  ;D ;D

Never learned about Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Treason?

Surely you have seen his image:




or maybe this one is more familiar:

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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2011, 03:39:45 PM »
SUBJOE. Nope, never heard of it that  I remember. Can you relate a short story of it?? POWDERMAN.  :o :o
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Mr. Charles Glenn “Charlie” Nelson, age 73, of Payneville, KY passed away Thursday, October 14, 2021 at his residence. RIP Charlie, we'll will all miss you. GB

Only half the people leave an abortion clinic alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM
What part of ILLEGAL is so hard to understand???
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2011, 04:20:49 PM »
After the death of Elizabeth I the Catholics in England hoped that James I would ease up on them - quit killing them off in job lots.  Didn't happen.  Guy Fawkes, and some others, with help from the Netherlands, plotted to blow up Parliament, James I and the Prince of Wales.  Some of the conspirators had second thoughts because some of those likely to be killed were Catholic sympathizers, they contacted some people in authority.  Guy Fawkes was captured, along with 36 kegs of powder, in the basement of Parliament.  He was tortured, named names.  He was sentenced to the usual - hanged by the neck but not until dead, cut down, privy members cut off and burned in front of him, entrails ripped from his body  and burned in front of him. Then his heart. Head to be put on a pike, body quartered to be displayed around London.  He avoided that by jumping from the scaffold and breaking his neck.  His head was still removed and his body quartered.
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2011, 02:39:40 AM »
SUBJOE. Thanks, I've learned something. POWDERMAN.  ;D ;D
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Mr. Charles Glenn “Charlie” Nelson, age 73, of Payneville, KY passed away Thursday, October 14, 2021 at his residence. RIP Charlie, we'll will all miss you. GB

Only half the people leave an abortion clinic alive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM
What part of ILLEGAL is so hard to understand???
I learned everything about islam I need to know on 9-11-01.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u9kieqGppE&feature=related
http://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactthegovernor.cfm

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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2011, 05:19:45 AM »
 I wish we celebrated Guy Fawkes Day in the U.S.
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2011, 08:09:04 AM »
So a couple of Catholic finks ratted out one of their own. ;D
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2011, 08:14:16 AM »
Oh boy, someone trying to turn this into another "Let's bash Catholics" thread.
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Re: Gunpowder Day
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2011, 08:19:31 AM »
I would have written similar if they were Protestants, Budhists, Jews or Muslims ;D ;D
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