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1100 is MINE!!!

There is no justice in the world

From Judge Dredd "There is no justice. There is Just Us!"

What can be more soothing, at once to a man’s Pride, and to his Conscience, than the conviction that, in taking vengeance on his enemies for injustice done him, he has simply to do them justice in return?

I like it when I pass by the fire station and that fireman blows the horn in order to scare me. It worked once, think he would stop.

I lived around the corner from a Fire Station growing up. I always felt safe knowing they could be to my house in a matter of seconds if there was ever a fire. Until, of course, the day the Fire Station itself caught on fire and they had to send another truck from the next neighborhood over to help them put it out...

Speaking of firemen, they are already having to put out early Bonfires being made ready for Guy Fawkes night.

In 1605, Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido - yes, really) and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had had a rough time under her reign had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. Alas, he was not, and this angered a number of young men who decided that violent action was the answer.

One young man in particular, Robert Catesby suggested to some close friends that the thing to do was to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In doing so, they would kill the King, maybe even the Prince of Wales, and the Members of Parliament who were making life difficult for the Catholics. Today these conspirators would be known as extremists, or terrorists.

To carry out their plan, the conspirators got hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder - and stored them in a cellar, just under the House of Lords.

But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that some innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack. Some of the plotters started having second thoughts. One of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend, Lord Monteagle, to stay away from the Parliament on November 5th. Was the letter real?

The warning letter reached the King, and the King's forces made plans to stop the conspirators.

Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.

It's unclear if the conspirators would ever have been able to pull off their plan to blow up the Parliament even if they had not been betrayed - some people think the gunpowder they were planning to use was so old as to be useless. Since Guy Fawkes and his colleagues got caught before trying to ignite the powder, we'll never know for certain.

Even for the period which was notoriously unstable, the Gunpowder Plot struck a very profound chord for the people of England. In fact, since the failed coup, the reigning monarch only enters the Parliament once a year, on what is called "the State Opening of Parliament". Prior to the Opening, and according to custom, the Yeomen of the Guard search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster. Today, the Queen and Parliament still observe this tradition.

These days, Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire.

Some of the English have been known to wonder whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government.

Guy Fawkes, the only man to ever enter Parliament with honest intentions

One of my favorite jokes is:

How can you tell when a politican is lying?

His lips are moving.

Let me see if I can get this thread moving again

"Movin' on up!" is a theme song from a show I've never watched, although I heard the theme song a lot at college parties...

When I was in college one of my supervisors at the dining hall I worked at used to have parties at his house. At on party there was a big group of us sitting around in his attic drinking. I got really, really drunk and threw up into a wok that was sitting in the attic. Having to go in to work the next night and face him was odd to say the least. He was a cool guy though, and he didn't really give me a hard time about it.

I miss Loser Lad. I hope he is not getting sick in woks anymore.

Man, it's taken us seven years to get this thread moving again.

I moved twice in the last seven years.

The reason a broken mirror is seven years of bad luck is because the Romans believed that a person's body completely changed in seven years. So the person wo broke the mirror is no longer here for the bad luck.

If it weren't for bad luck,
I'd have no luck at all.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

Pfft! You was gone.

Where did ya go?

I searched the world over.

I have a Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego cd. Some nice songs on it. I like "Cake for Breakfast"

Seeing the Search For Spock in theaters was so disappointing I've never seen more than a short clip it ever again.

My hair will need clipping soon, but I just can't be bothered...