REMEMBER, remember the Fifth of November

[packman]

Forgo watching a Sunday football game and watch:

[LAS14]

1. What's this???

[justgamma]

3. V for Vendetta.

It's playing today on BBCA.

[Siwsan]

8. The 1605 plot to blow up Parliament

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!

[cwydro]

2. Gunpowder, treason, and plot!

My mom used to quote that every year.

[HipChick]

4. Nov 5th, Guy Fawkes celebrations back in UK..

[Wounded Bear]

7. Really? Me, too...

Oh, and no, I won't give up my football game. I've seen V for Vendetta already. Good movie with a lot of applicability to our current situation.

[longship]

6. A key scene in the film. Inspector Finch's revelation.

Warning: spoiler!

But Stephen Rea portrays Finch here, in a sotto voce dialog with his deputy, as almost resigned to inevitable fate. It is an extraordinary scene.