"Remember, Remember, the 5th of November, The Gunpowder Treason and plot. I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot." Guy Fawkes

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[–]Mnemonic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well Guy Fawkes didn't say that, it was the fictional comicbook character 'V'.

Guy Fawkes was the baddy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

He is used by 'V' for as a example (along with blowing up the same building) as resistance one man can offer when he deems The ruling class is wrong.

Now V uses citizens to do the same (aka, everyone thinks the same as V), as were Fawkes just wanted Catholics back in power in England.

The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John and Christopher Wright, Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in the failed suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives.

He fought against the Dutch who liberated themselves from Spain, tells you enough about this Guy fellow.

The comic is better than the movie and leaves a different imprint behind (like the girl is 15 and isn't going on a date when she meets V but is trying to get into prostitution, and the main bad guy is in love with a surveillance AI).

[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I like this excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night

Gathering wood for the bonfire increasingly became the province of working-class children, who solicited combustible materials, money, food and drink from wealthier neighbours, often with the aid of songs. Most opened with the familiar "Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot". The earliest recorded rhyme, from 1742, is reproduced below alongside one bearing similarities to most Guy Fawkes Night ditties, recorded in 1903 at Charlton on Otmoor:

Don't you Remember, The Fifth of November, 'Twas Gunpowder Treason Day,

I let off my gun, And made'em all run. And Stole all their Bonfire away. (1742)

[–]Mnemonic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice one! I thought the second line was from the comic alone, but you're right:

Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'Twas his intent. To blow up the King and the Parliament. Three score barrels of powder below. Poor old England to overthrow.