For all of the holidays that we in the United States celebrate, we don’t commemorate Guy Fawkes Night, the celebration of a failed assassination attempt on the life of King James I in 1605. I mean, I’m not SURPRISED by this, as Kansas is pretty far from the House of Lords and there was a whole revolution thing in the 1770s, but when I first heard of Bonfire Night as a kid, I thought it always sounded kind of festive and fun. Add in the fact that you always heard it from people with cool British accents, and you’ve got a celebration that I kind of wished we had embraced, leading us to today’s should-never-be-forgot query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) would also love to know where you grew up, whether you say yes or no, asking: Were you taught the tale of Gunpowder Treason day as a child?
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As an Air Force brat growing up in Massachusetts, Texas, and Maryland, I did not hear about the Gunpowder Treason until reading V for Vendetta in trade during college. (And now, I strangely kind of want a Doctor Who episode that explains he was trying to blow up alien infiltrators in Parliament.)
Nope, and still have no idea what you are talking ’bout.