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Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:11 #1

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I haven't seen anyone do it for years. Has anyone else seen it in recent years?
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:15 #2

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Yes, the cheeky thugs round here come door knocking or stand at street corners - WITHOUT a Guy - asking for money for the invisible Guy. Teenagers, not little uns. Like you're going to give it to them so that they can get drugged up & throw lit fireworks at you! The little bastards!
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:20 #3

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Without a guy! :O That is cheeky.

It's been over 10 years since I saw anyone do it. Are you up north, down suoth, in the middlands? I was in the south east and now in the south west. Kids just don't seem to do it. :(
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:25 #4

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North west.

I don't even like the idea of trick or treating that's spread here from the States in recent years. We never did it as kids, and I think it's ridiculous, trawling round the streets, asking strangers for sweets.

Half of them don't even bother getting costumed up either!

Bah. Humbug! :D
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:27 #5

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I don't like the trick or treating either. Penny for the guy is a British custom though, and I'm a bit pissed off that it's been usurped by this Halloween malarkay.
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:35 #6

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We used to build a bonfire & make a Guy, but we wouldn't have been allowed to go asking for money off people. It just wasn't the done thing in our neck of the woods anyway.

My sister sits at the door all night with a mountain of sweets to dole out on Halloween, but I just don't like the idea of it.

Last year I was decorating a cake, and it was really pissing me off that every few minutes, there were people banging at the door & making the dogs bark like crazy.

You may call me Victoria Meldrew! :chuckle:
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 15:40 #7

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Burning an effigy of a Catholic conspirator is frowned upon these days.

I'm surprised any surviving relatives of Guy Fawkes haven't sued for compensation in the past. :)
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 21:42 #8

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Someone explain this to me please.
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 21:46 #9

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Rick wrote:
Someone explain this to me please.

It must be a UK thing because i have no idea what they are talking about...
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 21:46 #10

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hugorune wrote:
Burning an effigy of a Catholic conspirator is frowned upon these days.

I'm surprised any surviving relatives of Guy Fawkes haven't sued for compensation in the past. :)

I miss this old custom. I want to make a guy this year and burn it, but Mr P says it will ruin the lawn. :mad:
England, where we have requests for 'a penny for the guy'. This derives from the bonfire celebrations that began to celebrate the thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Guy Fawkes was the explosives specialist of the plot. He was scheduled to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but escaped that fate by prematurely hanging himself by jumping from the scaffold with the noose around his neck. He is now symbolically re-executed each year on 5th November (Bonfire Night), when effigies of him, called guys, are burned on bonfires all over England. The 'pennies' that children collect are traditionally spent on fireworks. This had a secular and political rather than religious or supernatural motivation, but it clearly inherited much from souling.

There you go Rick. :)
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 21:53 #11

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Lesley why in the world would you wan't to do that... :umm: :noway: :iitm:

Im glad we just trick or treat in America...
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:05 #12

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It's good stuff. You make your Guy, beg people for money, and then you burn the muthafucker and let off some fireworks. What's not to like about that?
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:19 #13

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LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
It's good stuff. You make your Guy, beg people for money, and then you burn the muthafucker and let off some fireworks. What's not to like about that?

When I hear girls talking about burning guys it makes me nervous... :fraid:

Makes me think of the Wicker Man...
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:19 #14

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LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
hugorune wrote:
Burning an effigy of a Catholic conspirator is frowned upon these days.

I'm surprised any surviving relatives of Guy Fawkes haven't sued for compensation in the past. :)

I miss this old custom. I want to make a guy this year and burn it, but Mr P says it will ruin the lawn. :mad:
England, where we have requests for 'a penny for the guy'. This derives from the bonfire celebrations that began to celebrate the thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Guy Fawkes was the explosives specialist of the plot. He was scheduled to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but escaped that fate by prematurely hanging himself by jumping from the scaffold with the noose around his neck. He is now symbolically re-executed each year on 5th November (Bonfire Night), when effigies of him, called guys, are burned on bonfires all over England. The 'pennies' that children collect are traditionally spent on fireworks. This had a secular and political rather than religious or supernatural motivation, but it clearly inherited much from souling.

There you go Rick. :)

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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:25 #15

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Don't worry RealAmerican, we don't burn men. :chuckle:

@ hugo, he takes it very seriously and is adamant that the patch of charred earth will give the garden a 'pikey' appearance.
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:37 #16

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LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
Don't worry RealAmerican, we don't burn men. :chuckle:.

Thank goodness I was starting to wonder what the hell I was getting myself into around here.... :O

For all I know some girls from the UK might come to the US, kidnap me, take me to an Island and burn me alive
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:38 #17

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It's all OK RealAmemrican. I don't understand all of your American ways.
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:47 #18

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Round our way, kids used to sit outside the sweet shop, with a teddy bear, or sometimes another kid in a pram :facepalm: :chuckle:
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:48 #19

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They didn't burn the kid on the bonfire afterwards did they?
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Re: Does anyone still do penny for the guy? 22 Oct 2012 22:49 #20

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LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
They didn't burn the kid on the bonfire afterwards did they?

Hopefully not! :O :chuckle:
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