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Diamond [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 0	27 Nov 2009 11:13am
	Okay, Thanksgiving is for us Americans - what holidays does the rest of the world celebrate?

Diamond [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 0	27 Nov 2009 11:20am
	Tot, what holidays do you have over there?

[ini] Old Owner = 7585 [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 0	27 Nov 2009 11:23am
	we have xmas birthdays easter we dont have thanks giving we have st andrews day and st georges day and st patricks day oh and guy fox

Caldwell Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 3	27 Nov 2009 11:26am
	guy fawkes isn't it? christmas, easter, mainly just religious holidays here. We don't even have Guy Fawkes here

Caldwell Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 3	27 Nov 2009 11:26am
	St.Patricks Day aswell obviously

[†] CherryRed [inactive] Post Count: 49 Respect: 15	27 Nov 2009 11:27am
	Aye Guy Fawkes, most Americans dont know what that means lol =P

Robot Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 13	27 Nov 2009 11:28am
	Even guy fawkes is more of a bonfire night now. I remember when they used to actually light up a model of him.

Caldwell Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 3	27 Nov 2009 11:30am
	I was rarely in england for Guy Fawkes, always had to go home because school was always back on the 3rd november. I was always really disappointed because we're not allowed to use fireworks where i am

Diamond [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 0	27 Nov 2009 11:30am
	Yeah, never heard of Fawkes

Caldwell Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 3	27 Nov 2009 11:33am
	He tried to blow up the houses of parliament over 400 years ago.

[†] CherryRed [inactive] Post Count: 49 Respect: 15	27 Nov 2009 11:34am
	They still do that up in Brighton, they have one of the biggest celebrations for it.

Diamond [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 0	27 Nov 2009 11:39am
	So basically, it's a celebration for a terrorist, basically? (not making fun, just seems odd is all)

TheDuck [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: -1	27 Nov 2009 11:39am
	Remember remember the fifth of November; the gun powder treason & plot. And yes; I knew what this was. Guy was a good Guy.

[†] CherryRed [inactive] Post Count: 49 Respect: 15	27 Nov 2009 11:42am
	No it's a celebration for catching him.

Caldwell Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 3	27 Nov 2009 11:42am
	well for the 5th of november it was always the case that effigies of Guy Fawkes were burned in disdain over what he tried to do and then it grew from that and has turned into the "celebration" type night that it is. So was never intentionally a celebration of a terrorist lol it's just the way it looks now.

Diamond [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 0	27 Nov 2009 11:44am
	Thanks for the discussion, until tomorrow for me...

[†] CherryRed [inactive] Post Count: 49 Respect: 15

27 Nov 2009 11:44am

Taken from Wiki... Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries,[1][2] belonged to a group of Catholic restorationists from England who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.[3] Their aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I and the entire Protestant, and even most of the Catholic, aristocracy and nobility were inside. The conspirators saw this as a necessary reaction to the systematic discrimination against English Catholics.[4] The Gunpowder Plot was led by Robert Catesby, but Fawkes was put in charge of its execution. He was arrested a few hours before the planned explosion, during a search of the cellars underneath Parliament in the early hours of 5 November prompted by the receipt of an anonymous warning letter. Guy Fawkes Night (or "bonfire night"), held on 5 November in the United Kingdom and some parts of the Commonwealth, is a commemoration of the plot, during which an effigy of Fawkes is burned, often accompanied by a fireworks display. The word "guy", meaning "man" or "person", is derived from his name.[5] I guess it's to celebrate inventing fireworks and what he planned to do too:nut: Not in the way i see it though duck

TheDuck [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: -1	27 Nov 2009 11:46am
	I was just making a not so clever mockery of Guy's name, not that I personally think Parliament should be blown up; it's far too pretty.

Caldwell Bunny [inactive] Post Count: 0 Respect: 3	27 Nov 2009 11:51am
	Leave the parliament building alone, just blow up the people in it

[†] CherryRed [inactive] Post Count: 49 Respect: 15	27 Nov 2009 11:53am
	LOL