RE: 5th of November

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> It was a cult classic comic book and a reasonably good movie (not great,
> but not terrible).
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/

Yep. Go go Mr. Moore. Alan Moore is on-topic.

Also --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta


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> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of David Harley
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:53 AM
> To: 'Brian Loe'; 'Gadi Evron'
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: RE: [funsec] 5th of November
>
>
> I'm getting more confused, and I -live- here, but...
>
> > > And a hot bald chic is fun and the movie was about security, sorta...
>
> > First off -- It's about a novel, and a comic book one at that.
>
> That, I presume, is "V for Vendetta": I've never seen it, but I gather
> it's based on an English comic book and has a tag line based on the
> rhyme Gadi quoted. Actually, what I know of it reminds me vaguely of
> something I read in the late 50s or early 60s, but that may have nothing
> to do with anything.
>
> > Second -- This is much older than any comic book.
>
> The rhyme is very old: it seems to go back to the early 1600s, when the
> practice of celebrating the foiling of the Guy Fawkes plot (on 5th
> November 1605) began. The practice of lighting bonfires and burning
> effigies seems to have begun the following year, but I don't know if the
> rhyme began then. Personally, I incline to the view that Fawkes was
> probably the only honest man ever to enter parliament, though I suppose
> even he had a hidden agenda...
>
> --
> David Harley
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