Guy Fawkes

[Tink]

Does anyone actually do anything around this date... curious... anyone keen for a meet up on the 5th at the Village bar & Grill.... Patumahoe... ?

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oops forgot to mention .. its the classic car night... can we over run them... ;)

[McJim]

I never fully understood Guy Fawkes night. Are we celebrating that he attempted to blow up parliament or are we celebrating that he got caught?

If the latter I'm gonna give up Guy Fawkes night.

[Laxi]

will there be planning for a guy fawks reinactment?:devil2:

[James Deuce]

I never fully understood Guy Fawkes night. Are we celebrating that he attempted to blow up parliament or are we celebrating that he got caught?

If the latter I'm gonna give up Guy Fawkes night.
Got caught. Royalist Italian Mercenary. Got everything he deserved.

[Motu]

Double Happy was the Classic Cracker...legal tender for 10 year olds.I wonder if they will make a revival version,y'know - half the strength,half as many in a packet,10 times the price.

[Blackshear]

Double Happy was the Classic Cracker...legal tender for 10 year olds.I wonder if they will make a revival version,y'know - half the strength,half as many in a packet,10 times the price.

I still have a few :cool:
By few I mean 1/3 of a 'magazine', if you will.

[SMOKEU]

It's just an excuse to get drunk and do stupid shit with fireworks.

[rainman]

It's just an excuse to get drunk and do stupid shit with fireworks.

It's got really boring these days. My family had a fine tradition of Blowing Shit Up on Guy Fawkes, none among us more so than my dad. But that was back when they'd sell firecrackers of the Seriously Explosive Persuasion down at the local dairy. To 10 year olds. Come to think of it, I used to go buy the makings of gunpowder from my local chemist when I wasn't much older than that, and not only at Guy Fawkes either... Made many an effective bomb :devil2:

Still have all my fingers and eyes, too, so I can't be too stupid.

[cs363]

Yes, there's better value to be had with a few dollars worth of oxy-acetylene than the fizzers that pass for fireworks these days.... :devil2:

[TOTO]

when is the Guy Fawkes thingy ?

[Swoop]

Still have all my fingers and eyes, too, so I can't be too stupid.
This is precisely where Mr Darwin could do his "good work(tm)" on society.
Thank you, once again, PC brigade.

[Skyryder]

I never fully understood Guy Fawkes night. Are we celebrating that he attempted to blow up parliament or are we celebrating that he got caught?

If the latter I'm gonna give up Guy Fawkes night.


I think the celebration is for the fact that he got caught. He was the bad guy.

from Wiki. In popular culture
Anarchist poster from the mid-20th century

In 18th-century England, it became a tradition for children to display a grotesque effigy of Fawkes, termed a "guy", as part of the Bonfire Night celebration.[19] As part of the tradition, they will often stand on streetcorners begging for "a penny for the guy".[20] The "guy" would be burned on a bonfire at the end of the evening. As a consequence, "guy" came to mean a man of odd appearance. Subsequently, in American English, "guy" lost any pejorative connotation, becoming a simple reference for any man.[5]

John Lennon recalled the Gunpowder plot at the end of the song Remember with the reference to "No, no, remember, remember the fifth of November"[21]. This lyric, which closes the song on the 1970 Plastic Ono Band LP, is followed by a recording of an explosion.

Fawkes was ranked 30th in the 2002 list of the 100 Greatest Britons, sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.[22] He was also included in a list of the 50 greatest people from Yorkshire.[23] The Guy Fawkes River and thus Guy Fawkes River National Park in northern New South Wales, Australia were named after Fawkes by explorer John Oxley, who, like Fawkes, was from North Yorkshire. In the Galápagos Islands a collection of two crescent-shaped islands and two small rocks northwest of Santa Cruz Island, are called Isla Guy Fawkes.[24]

William Harrison Ainsworth's 1841 historical romance Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason, portrays Fawkes, and Catholic recusancy in general, in a sympathetic light and was one of the first accounts to challenge the official depiction of the plot.[25]

Skyryder

[MisterD]

Got caught. Royalist Italian Mercenary. Got everything he deserved.

Actually, no. He was born in Yorkshire...the "Guido" thing was an affectation to enhance his Catholic-ness whilst fighting in Spain.

[EJK]

when is the Guy Fawkes thingy ?


http://www.my-silvermac.com/wordpress/wp-content/images/vendetta.jpg

Remember remember... The fifth of November

[Oscar]

It's just an excuse to get drunk and do stupid shit with fireworks.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

[cs363]

You say that like it's a bad thing...

I thought it was compulsory.... :confused:

[Thani-B]

Does anyone actually do anything around this date... curious... anyone keen for a meet up on the 5th at the Village bar & Grill.... Patumahoe... ?

I could be keen. Could see if SATNR would be heading that way, of course the week before is hotdog night, and so they might not want to go there two weeks in a row.

[ready4whatever]

I've been making all sorts of bombs out of fireworks for years, still havnt been able to match the one i made when i was about 9 or 10, which consisted of alot of gunpowder in a 4 litre paint tin. maybe because now im 20 and know i could of blown my face off. Hiroshimas worst threat since little boy

[Geemsee]

Must admit, I have noticed that the fireworks (i've seen) over here are a bit sh*te, Id've thought with all the Chinese folk here there would be some rocking stuff around!:devil2:

[Tink]

I could be keen. Could see if SATNR would be heading that way, of course the week before is hotdog night, and so they might not want to go there two weeks in a row.

Well its for a few reasons, its my regular, and its my birthday, and Insanity is coming up from welly we hope.... I can talk to Jimmie and see if we can swap the nights, and the hot rod club come another night... I might be able to twist his arm... maybe (highly unlikely) but who knows, never say never.

:innocent:

[gatch]

Guy fawkes night is the only only day of the year (aside from opening morning - duck season) that I'm not worried about the police turning up at my house for the explosions..

It is a day not to be wasted..

[Pussy]

I feel sorry for Guy Fawkes. He was the only person with good intentions to have entered parliament....

[Thani-B]

Well its for a few reasons, its my regular, and its my birthday, and Insanity is coming up from welly we hope.... I can talk to Jimmie and see if we can swap the nights, and the hot rod club come another night... I might be able to twist his arm... maybe (highly unlikely) but who knows, never say never.

:innocent:

Well I wont be riding until my bike is fixed/replaced. By then it should be though. Shall talk to them if I make it on SATNR this week (hoping someone will pillion me).

[CookMySock]

It's got really boring these days. My family had a fine tradition of Blowing Shit Up on Guy Fawkes, none among us more so than my dad. [....] I used to go buy the makings of gunpowder from my local chemist when I wasn't much older than that, and not only at Guy Fawkes either... Made many an effective bomb :devil2:
Hehe, nice one. Yeah we used to blow countless shit up, but we were using the real thing - sounds like a brand of petfood and rhymes with vegemite. There was always rolls of black insulation tape, brown or white striped rope stuff, and shiny little capsules rolling around under our passenger seat, just in case we "needed" to "do" something. We never hurt ourselves or anyone else and never remotely intended to, but we came much too close, way too many times, just by not knowing the risks. Unwise, looking back. :Oops:

These days such antics would have a very dim view taken of them indeed. Back then we did actually get busted in the end, and just had to pay ($150bux ish) for the (small) damage, so that was the end of that. Nowadays I am sure such people would be labeled terrorists, which is sad really, coz we just wanted to have a laugh and make people jump. :innocent:

Steve

[Tink]

Well I wont be riding until my bike is fixed/replaced. By then it should be though. Shall talk to them if I make it on SATNR this week (hoping someone will pillion me).

I hope someone does pillion you... buggers if they don't... I have my girls... so I am at home.. celebrating my daughters 12th birthday.. sigh. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THE WORD, WE CAN GO ANYWHERE ANYWAY... whats up with your bike?

[Tink]

will there be planning for a guy fawks reinactment?:devil2:

When I first moved into my house.... on a farm... the neighbours lit two huge bonfires... and my bil nearly shot the house down with a cracker that lost its way.... so re enactments are out... lol ...

I miss the real big ones... it sux what they give you these days... another reason to say the minority ruin it for the majority... don't be an idiot..and we can all play with fire.... be an idiot and the law undertakes to arrest you!

[Thani-B]

I hope someone does pillion you... buggers if they don't... I have my girls... so I am at home.. celebrating my daughters 12th birthday.. sigh. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THE WORD, WE CAN GO ANYWHERE ANYWAY... whats up with your bike?


It ran away... lol
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=109555

[Tink]

It ran away... lol
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=109555

OUCH... Glad to see you got thru the hunua's ok... I hate that road in a car at the best of times... ;)