It was Guy Fawkes here last night. There's been fireworks going off all week, and huge displays last night.
The only thing I don't like about Guy Fawkes/fireworks in general is the potential damage and injuries - particularly to pets.
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It's like all the things I miss about England combined with all the things I like about Canada... gah!
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I don't know. It's a good thing in the world apocalyse sense but a bad thing in the "I want to visit my relatives" sense.
It's interesting- since I've always lived in the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern hemisphere conjures up vague images of sea and kangaroos and heat and huge spiders and coral reefs and Willard Price and Antarctica. It's alien.
That's why I want to visit, to see if it is "out of the way" and to make it less alien .
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Hehe. Well we don't have kangaroos, huge spiders, coral reefs, or heat. We do, however, have a lot of sea.
And I like that NZ is so far away from everywhere, for the most part. Sometimes it's somewhat irksome, and it'd be cool if, say, Hawaii was a bit closer, but really I'm glad to be so far away from America.
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I've always wanted to go there. I've also never been out of the Northern hemisphere, and would like to go.
And now that I know how to make a really really good mutton curry, all that sheep don't bother me. Yum!
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And I was never very into Paddington but I do have a healthy appreciation for him and I would "look after this bear." Posts: 8473 | Registered: Apr 2003
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I think he meant he's worried that if I got too close, I'd take over America. Mm. You better lookout, I just MIGHT!
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C'mon, you get tipsy regularly. You're not THAT straightedge. *patpat*
Also, it's a proven fact that NZ should be closer to Hawaii. Unanimous agreement by ALL the authorities.
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Friends of friends of friends of friends of dogs of friends of friends that live in Australia or Brazil (can't remember which) have given me the low down. Trust me, I know.
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Mmmmm, drinking and fire. Reasons to move to England... it would make for a very nice birthday.
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We had a blast this year. My 4-year-old learned about Guy Fawkes at school and got to go watch the fireworks on Sat. Night (6th it turns out). He still doesn't read, though, and insists that it is
Guy Forks Night!
Oh, to be so innocent as to only care that it is a fun filled evening of fireworks displays! We'll give him a few years and remind him again of the true story. For now "Forks" is good enough, I guess.
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My first Guy Fawkes Day since I've been back from England and I completely forgot about it. I was going to take a date and burn a dummy, but it's too late now.
Mmmmm, I still remember my last one. Going down to Hastings. Seeing the wooden crates stacked 50 feet on the beach. Being asked multiple times on the street "Penny for the guy?" while trying to teach about the Book of Mormon. Then at night seeing the big stack of wood being lit on fire. It was a great day.
I remember Rabin was asassinated on Guy Fawkes Night (I was 11, or 12)... I had gone to see the fireworks with my dad, and came back to find my mother in hysterics, watching the news, when she jumped up and told us that he'd been killed. That was pretty traumatic!
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It's funny, I never realised there was a difference between Forks and Fawkes- I pronounce them the same way. I figured it out though; using American pronounciation, they're quite different!
English: Fohrks and Fohrks. American: Forrrks and Fahkes.
I remember a huge bonfire that was piled up way over my head with broken furniture, and swings and stalls and lights and fireworks I had to cover my ears for. Posts: 8473 | Registered: Apr 2003
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You've hit the nail right on the head. My son hasn't picked up any accent, per se, from attending his British school, however, there are certain words that he has only used there that he speaks exactly as his teacher does. One place where that is particularly interesting is in his "Spanish" accent. I'm pretty sure he's picking it up from the children around him because the teacher is a native speaker. However, words like "dos", which I would pronounce as in "dose of medicine" he pronounces "doss" as in "toss out the window."
Funny the things kids pick up! Posts: 270 | Registered: Apr 2004
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The thing is although I am able to talk with an American/Canadian accent, I read in my head in an English accent.
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I actually convinced some of my friends who didn't know what Guy Fawkes day was that it was a day that they named after the scientific discovery of guy foxes (they didn't see the spelling of the day, just the pronounciation), and that before that date everyone believed there were only female foxes. I also convinced them that that's the reason vixen came to be developed as a term for a lady, because there were supposedly only female foxes.
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