Apparently this is all in honour of an English politician who was involved in a failed attempt to blow up Parliament back in 1603. So we're celebrating a rebel!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Guy Fawkes Night
It's Guy Fawkes Night, and Jake and I are in the living room with a couple cold beverages. We've brought our only radio -- our alarm clock -- up from downstairs in preparation for the big fireworks show. There's a barge loaded with fireworks out in the harbour that's going to host the big "fire show" in about 20 minutes from now.
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Hope you enjoyed the display. Yes a bizarre "celebration" isn't it? More a commemoration really. Guy Fawkes was the bad guy. The custom used to be to burn his effigy on bonfires this night. The fireworks came later. Fawkes was a Catholic of course, and suffered the most hideously gruesome death for treason. He's one of the reasons Catholics were mistrusted in Britain for a very long time after.
Yeah, it makes little sense to me why a country with republican leanings would celebrate Guy Fawkes. The fireworks are still kind of fun.
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