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children carrying around various "Guys" Well, yes--you said they call it guys-ing... Thanks for the link--a pretty place.
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>children carrying around various "Guys" Actually, ours were generally too big to carry - here's a description close to my own experience: "For weeks before November 5, Guy Fawkes Night, my brother and I gathered old rags and discarded clothes to make our "Guy," our effigy of Guy Fawkes, symbol of the Gunpowder Plot.
A little ragged sewing fashioned false feet and hands. We'd stuff a pudgy, vaguely head-shaped bulb on which we'd draw a face. Setting our creation in a borrowed wheelbarrow, we pushed it gleefully up and down the street, accosting every adult we met with broad grins and the ever popular demand: "Penny for the Guy?"
After we raised what felt like a king's ransom, our mother would take us to the shops, and we'd choose all the fireworks we wanted. Fully armed and primed, we eagerly would await the night."http://www.crescentblues.com/11issue/fawkes.shtml
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Yes, Jo - this fits with my experience, too, as does shona's. Halloween is far to near to Guy Fawkes night to make it an effective begging tool. ![](/board/images/icons/wink.gif) Although, round here, as many people give sweets, fruit or choccie biscuits as money as a response to "trick or treat", whereas "Penny for the Guy" has always been a demand for cash.
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"Penny for the Guy" has always been a demand for cash.Indeed! Though it always used to be a small amount of cash - sixpences in old money, probably no more than 20p these days. Maybe that's why you don't get many home-made guys now, what with the price of kid's toys. ![](/board/images/icons/frown.gif) Oh, and decent fireworks cost an arm and a leg, too. There's good reason I belong to two Bonfire Societies. (my best mate - a Scot, incidentally - refers to Bonfire Night as "Big Boy's Christmas" [grin])
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I'm off to help set up the bangs at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire next weekend for the Lancaster display ... LOTS of fireworks, plus some great non-powder pyros ...
Between 7,000 and 10,000 people are usually there!
I'm soooooo nervous ... not
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CK:
What do you do to set up the "bangs"? Are there diagrams and that kind of thing for the set-up? And are there all kinds of tarps in case it rains while you're setting up?
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It's usually flash powder in a plastic containder under some concoction made up of diesel or petrol (for the bang) and naptha (for the smoke) plus other add-ins, like titanium or magnesium (for brightness). It's all electrically fired and waterproof so, no, we don't bother with tarpaulins except for covering the firing board and the timing/music system. What we do very closely resembles (so we're told) an air attack on a WWII airfield. It's not pretty explosions with stars and crackling sparklers!
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At last! A terrific mnemonic for remembering the cobbler's last. Many, many thanks, Ted. Wish I'd known you when I had to memorize all the steps to the photosynthesis cycle, well over twenty. ![](/board/images/icons/smile.gif)
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flash powder in a plastic containder under some concoction made up of diesel or petrol You just be careful, okay, Sweet One?
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