Today is Guy Fawkes Day!
Think of it...you could rent commercial warehouse space under Parliament back then.
Silly me. I thought this had something to do with something political.
Nothing political happened recently that I'm aware of.
🙁
Don
On November 5th, 1605 Authorities acting on a tip caught Guy Fawkes guarding a room full of gunpowder which was to be used to blow up the King and Parliament so that a Catholic King could be installed on the throne of England.
The King took a dim view of this and sentenced Fawkes to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
I was thinking it was hard to push the sarcasm tab with cloven hooves....
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!
