It is Guy Fawkes Day, and tonight there will be bonfires across England to incinerate the memory of the luckless Mr. Fawkes, best known of the plotters who planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament, hoping to get King James I in the blast.
None of that happened, thanks to possibly the most incompetent political skullduggery until the Watergate break-in.
Now even Guy Fawkes seems on the edge of being forgotten, despite this once famous doggerel:
"Remember, remember!
The Fifth of November
The Gunpowder treason and plot.
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot."
Stay clear of bonfires tonight.
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