The dude hasn't been mentioned at Outsports in the last year and a half.

Who is John Galt?

I mean, who was Guy Fawkes?

Sounds like a great combination: getting drunk and setting a bonfire. What could go wrong?

Burn, baby, burn.

I am ALWAYS "pleased to remember the Fifth of November!" :cool:

Lady Antonia Fraser's book on the subject, "Faith & Treason," remains a good read.

"Penney for the Guy?"* :confused:
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*NOT a reference to Capt. John Robinson's alleged incest!

Just because the stores haven't put up their Guy Fawkes Day displays is no reason to overlook the occasion.

I shall celebrate it by blowing up the Tower of London!*



*Note to Homeland Security, this is a joke. Please don't arrest me.

Find a man with the body of a marine, the brains of a fencepost, and "fawke" like a bunny

Well I'm hoping to fawke a guy.

Boo! Get the hook!

Not to pick nits, but wasn't Guy Fawkes planning on blowing up parliament (not the Tower)?

"A penny for the old guy" comes from the tradition of Englanders going door to door on Guy Fawkes Day. It's kind of the equivalent of trick or treating, only the house dwellers give out pennies (or so I've heard).

"A penny for the old guy" (or whatever the actual line is) is best known to Americans (and high school students, perhaps the most) from TS Ellio's poem "The Hollow Men". Before the body of the poem is a two line intro, one borrowing from the first line of Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (Kurtz is dead) and the other from Guy Fawkes Day. Oddly enough, the poem is the same poem Marlon Brando recites in "Apocalypse Now". Oh, and Brando's character's name was Kurtz.

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/hm...anth/eliot.html

And here I came to this thread to post something very similar. I guess I am not as creative as I thought.

Well you might be as creative as you thought, just not as fast.

Yup, but that's what they'd be expecting on Guy Fawkes Day. I'd need to surprise them somehow.

Even more devious than Mr. Fawkes. I like it!