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Gunpowder Plot

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  1. gas

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    Guy Fawkes belonged to a group of English Catholics intent on assassinating King James 1st and installing a Catholic King or Queen to the throne. He was caught and killed himself before the sentence of being hung drawn and quartered was carried out. Now every 5th November since 1605 we have celebrated the failed gunpowder plot by burning effigies of Fawkes in bonfires up and down the country.

    Does this celebration extend to the Celtic nations that make up the UK or is it purely an English tradition and do English Catholics partake in the celebration?
     
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  2. Jip Jaap Stam

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    I'm pretty sure some RCs do join in. Though it's a bit daft of them to do so I suppose.
     
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    typical.try to do some good for the country and they want to punish you for it
     
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    well in scotland everyones open minded, fenians take part in bonfire night celebrations and proddies march to commemorate a victory for a papal ally at the boyne
     
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  5. Otto Flayshow

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    We always did it when I was a kid in Glasgow, but used real live Catholics rather than effigies. We didn't always wait till the 5th of November either.
     
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  6. Jip Jaap Stam

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    Must have been very authentic <ok>
     
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  7. Archers Road

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    Guido Fawkes, the only man ever to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions.
     
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  8. Mind The Duck

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    Burn an effigy of a Catholic....have a party

    Burn a poppy though.......
     
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  9. gas

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    That`s a tad harsh but <laugh> anyway

    Wonder how things would have turned out if the plot had succeeded.
     
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    More of us would've been molested by priests, for a start <whistle>
     
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  11. Dave the Rave

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    I burned my mattress once...

    But everyone died <yikes>
     
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  12. Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction

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    Typical ****in fenian plots, ruined by informers <grr>
     
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  13. Bhoy From Brum

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    Better schools <ok>
     
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    Guido Fawkes ...

    Sounds like a wop!
     
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  15. Mind The Duck

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    Better football players
     
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    Sexier members of the Clergy!
     
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  17. Mind The Duck

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    Peace in our time
     
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    We should abolish religion!Without religion the world would be a much better place.
     
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    <laugh><laugh><laugh>****ing quote and a half, which I will be stealing from you to use in the coming weeks.<ok>
     
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  20. Mind The Duck

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    If only we could stop people believing in things <doh>

    Automaton.
     
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