RE: 5th of November

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- david.a.harley () gmail com wrote:

> The rhyme is very old: it seems to go back to the early 1600s, when the
> practice of celebrating the foiling of the Guy Fawkes plot (on 5th
> November 1605) began. The practice of lighting bonfires and burning
> effigies seems to have begun the following year, but I don't know if the
> rhyme began then. Personally, I incline to the view that Fawkes was
> probably the only honest man ever to enter parliament, though I suppose
> even he had a hidden agenda...  

Thank goodness someone with a voice of reason finally spoke up.

Yes -- it's Guy Fawkes Day (Night):

http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2007/11/remember-remember-fifth-of-november-gu
y.html

- - ferg

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