RE: 5th of November

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

I'm getting more confused, and I -live- here, but...
 
> > And a hot bald chic is fun and the movie was about security, sorta...

> First off -- It's about a novel, and a comic book one at that. 
 
That, I presume, is "V for Vendetta": I've never seen it, but I gather it's
based on an English comic book and has a tag line based on the rhyme Gadi
quoted. Actually, what I know of it reminds me vaguely of something I read
in the late 50s or early 60s, but that may have nothing to do with anything.
 
> Second -- This is much older than any comic book.
 
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...

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David Harley
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