Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...

Happy Guy Fawkes Night Day...or something like that,

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, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

This strikes me as a strange holiday...Let's celebrate the corporal punishment of a King James hating tyrant by burning wooden sculptures of him and setting off fireworks. Maybe this is where Burning Man came from? And why is it not called Happy King James Survived! day or Huzzah, Guy Fawkes is Dead! day.

I think that we, as United States of Americans, should start celebrating the day they found Saddam Hussein hiding in his little hiding hole. What should we call it...Happy International Terrorist Day? We can build statues of Saddam and topple them to the ground. Then, we can all read up on the Patriot Act and Homeland Security tactics and other Bush era shenanigans.

I guess we do have Colombus Day...although it is offensive on a whole other level

However obscure this holiday seems to me, there are many who revel in its fun (personally, I only know of Yeoju's own Scottish lass, Fiona, who has adopted a few pyrotechnic loving Americans, Canadians and Koreans). I will be amongst them this evening, as we shoot off fireworks underneath the Yeoju bridge. There are cars that drive on that bridge--also seems inappropriate...but a Korean is the one insisting we do this...and we trust him.