Why the hell did I just waste my time reading this stupid thread! There should be topics that are OT even for an OT list, and this is one of them. I want my 15 minutes back, dammit! I am now dumber for having read this thread, TYVM. You want evidence? How about this reply for one...
joel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of der Mouse Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] 5th of November > 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. A very good comic book (er, "graphic novel", a term I assume arose as some kind of response to societal attitudes towards "comic book"s). Odd that I like it, too - it's rather dystopian, and I don't normally like dystopias. Perhaps because it's got an overall positive message and ending despite its being so dystopian. (I too have never seen the movie, and it's reasonably likely I never will; so far I've found I generally don't like movies based on books when I like the book.) And yes, V For Vendetta - the book - does use the "Remember, remember, the fifth of November" line, though not with enough frequency for me to call it a tag-line. > 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. See Sandman #75, page 15, for one theory. :-) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
