Remember, remember...

[inkman]

...the 5th of November!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8UtojJT8ts&feature=related

[wonderbread]

...the 5th of November!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8UtojJT8ts&feature=related

 

The tube doesn't work at work.

 

I can only imagine that the attached link includes this little gem...

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant and vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [laughs] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me "V".

[Eleven]

Since I've never seen that movie, and I didn't know about Guy Fawkes masks generally (but I knew of 11/5 and the gunpowder plot), I was a little creeped out by what appeared to be a standing army of inkmen paying homage to some sort of inkman idol.

 

Now, though, I'm going to have to watch the movie.

[inkman]

I was a little creeped out by what appeared to be a standing army of inkmen paying homage to some sort of inkman idol.

:D

[LabattBlue]

I'm completely confused and feeling old. :D

[inkman]

I'm completely confused and feeling old. :D

So you feel like PA.

[LabattBlue]

So you feel like PA.

Exactly!

[Eleven]

I'm completely confused and feeling old. :D

 

There's no way that you're older than Guy Fawkes.

[darksabre]

Guy Fawkes Day: Irrelevant until V for Vendetta was made.

 

I mean seriously, who gave a crap about the 5th of November until this movie?

[Eleven]

Guy Fawkes Day: Irrelevant until V for Vendetta was made.

 

I mean seriously, who gave a crap about the 5th of November until this movie?

 

You mean in the US, right? I hear it's a pretty big deal overseas.

[wonderbread]

Guy Fawkes Day: Irrelevant until V for Vendetta was made.

 

I mean seriously, who gave a crap about the 5th of November until this movie?

 

 

My wife. Then again its her birthday.

[wjag]

My wife. Then again its her birthday.

Well now, wish her a happy birthday from some complete strangers at Sabrespace..

[darksabre]

You mean in the US, right? I hear it's a pretty big deal overseas.

 

Right.

[Seannie34]

Guy Fawkes Day: Irrelevant until V for Vendetta was made.

 

I mean seriously, who gave a crap about the 5th of November until this movie?

 

I saw some fireworks tonight in London. It is a pretty big deal here although the finale was about 2 minutes long, nothing like the fourth of July. Its an interesting because it is tough to tell if they are celebrating the attempt to kill the king or the fact that he escaped...

[Cereal]

Guy Fawkes Day: Irrelevant until V for Vendetta was made.

 

I mean seriously, who gave a crap about the 5th of November until this movie?

 

Only 6 more months til cinco de mayo?

[Eleven]

I saw some fireworks tonight in London. It is a pretty big deal here although the finale was about 2 minutes long, nothing like the fourth of July. Its an interesting because it is tough to tell if they are celebrating the attempt to kill the king or the fact that he escaped...

 

They're celebrating the fact that the plot was foiled and that Fawkes was caught. He didn't escape. (Or did you mean the king? He didn't escape, either; Parliament never blew up.)

 

I love London. Best city on the planet, at least that I've been to. But freaking expensive.

[Seannie34]

They're celebrating the fact that the plot was foiled and that Fawkes was caught. He didn't escape. (Or did you mean the king? He didn't escape, either; Parliament never blew up.)

 

I love London. Best city on the planet, at least that I've been to. But freaking expensive.

 

Yeah, celebrating the King escaping not Guy Fawkes is I guess the official interpretation.

 

London is a great city and I have found a Canadian pub that has Molson on tap and hockey on tv.

[cdexchange]

London is a great city and I have found a Canadian pub that has Molson on tap and hockey on tv.

 

 

Nice find! :beer:

Do they play Canadien music too?

[wonderbread]

Nice find! :beer:

Do they play Canadien music too?

 

Look out momma theres a white boat coming up the river

With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail

I think you’d better call john,

’cause it don’t look like they’re here to deliver the mail

And it’s less than a mile away

I hope they didn’t come to stay

It’s got numbers on the side and a gun

And it’s makin’ big waves.

 

Daddy’s gone, my brother’s out hunting in the mountains

Big john’s been drinking since the river took emmy-lou

So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin’

And I just turned twenty-two

I was wonderin’ what to do

And the closer they got,

The more those feelings grew.

 

Daddy’s rifle in my hand felt reassurin’

He told me, red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin’

But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin’

Raised my rifle to my eye

Never stopped to wonder why.

Then I saw black,

And my face splashed in the sky.

 

Shelter me from the powder and the finger

Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger

Think of me as one you’d never figured

Would fade away so young

With so much left undone

Remember me to my love,

I know I’ll miss her.

[inkman]

Maybe it's just me, but Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture stirs my emotions up very nicely.

[cdexchange]

Look out momma theres a white boat coming up the river

With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail

I think you’d better call john,

’cause it don’t look like they’re here to deliver the mail

And it’s less than a mile away

I hope they didn’t come to stay

It’s got numbers on the side and a gun

And it’s makin’ big waves.

 

Daddy’s gone, my brother’s out hunting in the mountains

Big john’s been drinking since the river took emmy-lou

So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin’

And I just turned twenty-two

I was wonderin’ what to do

And the closer they got,

The more those feelings grew.

 

Daddy’s rifle in my hand felt reassurin’

He told me, red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin’

But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin’

Raised my rifle to my eye

Never stopped to wonder why.

Then I saw black,

And my face splashed in the sky.

 

Shelter me from the powder and the finger

Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger

Think of me as one you’d never figured

Would fade away so young

With so much left undone

Remember me to my love,

I know I’ll miss her.

 

 

As you could probably surmise from my avatar, I give that a big :thumbsup:

[wjag]

Maybe it's just me, but Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture stirs my emotions up very nicely.

It's on my IPOD with a whole bunch more Tchaikovsky.. I'm pretty sure he invented it watching Chinese New Year.. :bag:

[Eleven]

Maybe it's just me, but Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture stirs my emotions up very nicely.

 

Give his Piano Concerto in Bb minor a listen some time.

[Ohiofan]

Give his Piano Concerto in Bb minor a listen some time.

 

 

 

The entire Nutcracker is a gorgeous piece of music :thumbsup:

[Eleven]

The entire Nutcracker is a gorgeous piece of music :thumbsup:

 

But the name is disturbing.