And there is no reason why gunpowder season should run thirty days on the trot.

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"WELCOME TO BAGHDAD, AND HAVE A NICE DAY!"
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Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

....and wondered what the occasion was.

You have sympathizers in this otherwise Irish and Italian Catholic neighborhood, it seems, or people who use any excuse to set off fireworks.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[redcountess]

Now that *is* weird, considering that some people here still burn an effigy of the Pope on Bonfire Night!

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Who? I never saw anybody burn an effigy of the Pope.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[redcountess]

I haven't seen it, I just read that it's a Bonfire Night tradition that some still practice.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Probably one mad old man on a Scottish Island somewhere.

Re: Just heard fireworks here in East Fall, PA, US,

[smorgasbord.livejournal.com]

and the bonfire societies in Lewes.
http://www.needananswer.co.uk/lewes-fireworks-2005.html