Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot." So, why is November 5th commemorated in the UK? The first non-UK citizen who can tell me the right reason, and provide an informative hyperlink to educate the unwashed masses, will win the coveted and roundly worshipped Soddball Smug Bugger of the Week award. (Yes, I know it should have gone in the general forum, but I wanted to educate the unwashed masses. Hi, mum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offtaskagain Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 Guy Fawkes day. A group tried to blow up Parliament by setting off barrels of gunpowder under Parliament. Guy Fawkes Day Edited for URL addition. [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: panzerwerfer42 ] Edited again because I hate UBB [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: panzerwerfer42 ] [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: panzerwerfer42 ]</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 You're faster than a whippet with a bum full of dynamite - and if you can find a website which tells the history behind it, the award's yours I should have guessed a man who lists 'fire' and 'fireworks' as his interests would have been on the ball for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offtaskagain Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 I just put it on. I screwed it up on the first attempt and put several edits of work into to it and now it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 *applaud* Won fair and square in 3 minutes by Panzerwerfer42 I'm off to bed now. You all play nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wally's World Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 Recently I watched a television show recounting how Guy Fawkes, after the noose had been put around his neck, jumped off the execution platform and hung himself in order to escape the pain of the execution itself. Is that true? [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: Wally's World ]</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakko Ichiu Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 I know of no reason the Gunpowder Treason Ever should be forgot. Penny for the Guy!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gatpr Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 Was that because he was to hung, drawn, and quartered? If so why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogadai Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 'tis said, amongst the more cynical, that Mr.Fawkes was the last honest man to enter the houses of Parliament. However, that is yesterday's date to some in the world and already forgotten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubbies Phan Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Soddball: "Gunpowder, Treason and Plot." So, why is November 5th commemorated in the UK? The first non-UK citizen who can tell me the right reason, and provide an informative hyperlink to educate the unwashed masses, will win the coveted and roundly worshipped Soddball Smug Bugger of the Week award.<hr></blockquote> No offense, but what makes you think we care? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 You guys still celebrate Guy Fawkes day and you wonder why Northern Irish Catholics don't completely trust England? Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 Cubbies Phan sez: <blockquote>quote:</font><hr> No offense, but what makes you think we care? <hr></blockquote> It wasn't a matter of caring, I just thought it might be interesting. Since we in the UK have to suffer the plaintive bleating of "Happy Thanksgiving" (which has no relevance to us) amongst the other myriad aspects of American culture, perhaps it might be interesting for you to learn something outside the Gude Ahld Ewe Ess of Aye. I apologise for attempting to broaden your horizons. Simply saying 'no offence' doesn't mean you aren't giving offence - it just attempts to excuse it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tero Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 Originally posted by Soddball: Cubbies Phan sez: It wasn't a matter of caring, I just thought it might be interesting. Since we in the UK have to suffer the plaintive bleating of "Happy Thanksgiving" (which has no relevance to us) amongst the other myriad aspects of American culture, perhaps it might be interesting for you to learn something outside the Gude Ahld Ewe Ess of Aye. I apologise for attempting to broaden your horizons. Simply saying 'no offence' doesn't mean you aren't giving offence - it just attempts to excuse it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vskalex Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Soddball: It wasn't a matter of caring, I just thought it might be interesting. Since we in the UK have to suffer the plaintive bleating of "Happy Thanksgiving" (which has no relevance to us) amongst the other myriad aspects of American culture, perhaps it might be interesting for you to learn something outside the Gude Ahld Ewe Ess of Aye. I apologise for attempting to broaden your horizons. Simply saying 'no offence' doesn't mean you aren't giving offence - it just attempts to excuse it.<hr></blockquote> Soddball, just have a look in the general forum, and you'll realise that Cubbies Phan is probably just after a flame war, and that comment was not probably seriously meant (I hope...). Anyway, today is 6th of November and we in Sweden have a flagday today, can any Non-Swedish tell why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 Gustavus Adolphus died today in 1632. Gustavus Adolphus web link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanns Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 What the Feck!!! I post a nasty little response to Soddball's whining and it's nowhere to be seen. BTS is censoring my words! ACLU fix or do somefink! For those that are wanting to bask in the glow of my magnificent words take heed! Soddball, it's not that us Americuns don't care about your little holiday, well, it's that we've beaten you in two wars and saved your @ss in two others. Please don't mistake out apathy for a lack of interest. For the rest of you, happy belated St. Vitus' day. Enjoy a nice loaf of ergot infected bread and watch the pretty colours. Have you hugged a Swiss chemist today? Prösit! Hanns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vskalex Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Soddball: Gustavus Adolphus died today in 1632. Gustavus Adolphus web link<hr></blockquote> Well done, you've just won a reindeer trip to Haparanda. Please remember to bring warm clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Kruger Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 I am NOT unwashed! I am squeaky clean! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 1) It's not a holiday. If you'd read the website kindly posted, you'd know that. 2) Not quite sure what relevance bringing wars into it has, but you carry on chest-beating. Ignorance is no barrier to rhetoric, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanns Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 Soddball, !1A-b14: I'm giving ya $hit! Do I need to incude smilies? 6.9 (what's that you ask? It's a period in the middle of a good thing ) Do you know what St. Vitus' day is. Ergot? Back at ya mate! Done the research? I'm dropping the "ball" in your court Hanns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 The Holy God Squad's List of Saints St. Vitus is the patron saint of dance and epileptics, apparently Easy. So, who was "Clever Hans" and why was he famous? Your turn smartarse. A hint: It's not you. Edited to get rid of St. Hanns disease - St. Hanns is the patron saint of f***ed-up posts [ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: Soddball ]</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanns Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 I don't consider myself clever. The only stomping I do is on other people's heads while at work at the bar Or are you referring to my physical umm... stature as horselike? Wait, you're not an Ozzie, you can't have seen that video from Spring Break '93. You still didn't answer my question about the relation of St. Vitus' dance and ergot. Google not working tonight? Besides I saw the history of the "Gunpowder Treason" in an episode of "Highlander: The Series". I think Duncan Mcleod should have blown up those nasty Brits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 Oh, that was a question? Right. I understand now. Sorry, us old-worlders like our english clear rather than mangled, you'll have to bear with me. Will let you know - and where's the link to Clever Hans for the uneducated masses? Really, Mr CessPoo, you're not playing the game. Highlander - LOL. The greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were included in the French marriage service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soddball Posted November 6, 2001 Author Share Posted November 6, 2001 Ergot and St. Vitus' Dance <blockquote>quote:</font><hr> Many symptoms of ergot poisoning and the plague are similar. They probably coexisted. The worst plague damage occurred where ergot suppressed the human immune system and made people vulnerable. Records of plague deaths show huge regional variations. The plague probably followed pockets of rye ergot. And what about witch hunts? The symptoms of bewitchment are consistent, but the way those symptoms were received was not. Crazy behavior was commonplace in the medieval plague years. The mad "Dance of Death" is a theme shot through medieval iconography. The spasms suffered by ergot victims were called St. Vitus Dance. <hr></blockquote> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanns Posted November 6, 2001 Share Posted November 6, 2001 Feck! You want me to post links for other pods edification? Well, 'spose I can do that then. Hans der über Pferd Now pray tell me the connection between St. Vitus's dance, ergot, the wonderful compound known as Lyserg-Saeure-Diaethylamid and falling off a bicycle. Let the threads join into a wonderful multi-coloured tapestry of knowledge. Bonus fun: name the four most entertaining chemicals invented by Teutonic chemists during the XIX century. Cheers! Hanns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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