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Date Posted: 13:08:33 10/12/07 Fri
Author: Pablo
Subject: Re: Halloween
In reply to: Michael 's message, "Re: Halloween" on 12:36:42 10/12/07 Fri

>>
>>>
>>>Hallowe'en..such an American invasion/intrusion. We
>>>have Guy Faukes Night..full of really scary kids
>>>trying to blow up people, dogs, cats, doors, rubbish
>>>bins....pretty much anything they can including
>>>themselves.
>>>
>>>Now that's more like it.
>>
>>Do I remember this right (from English lessons at
>>school) that Guy Fawkes was about to blow up the
>>parliament and was publicly hanged for it?
>
>Hanged, drawn and quartered. Or Drawn hung and then
>quartered I think. They liked to draw the intesitnes
>and stomach out of the body whilst still alive. It
>made it more of a spectator event for the viewing
>public.
>
>He, and his fellows, we all caught with barrels of
>gunpowder and faggots in the cellars of the houses of
>Parliament. It was claimed they were gonig to blow up
>King James (the whatevernumberhewas). This was also
>tied up with the Protestant/Catholic thing. I cant
>remember who was what, but it was very naughty.
>
>How they managed to get all the barrels of gunpowder
>and faggots to the cellar without getting caught was a
>mystery, probably the forerunner of all those 9/11
>conspiracy theories.
>
>Nowadays politicians are always trying to set some
>faggots on fire down in the cellar or any dark corner,
>and no-one bats an eyelid.

Faggot busting is a popular American political pastime. It is much practised by our President.

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Re: Halloween -- Johnny Reb, 13:11:24 10/12/07 Fri