A Geordie comes from a part of the North East of England around the Tyne and Wear/Newcastle Upon Tyne area, I'm not too sure of exactly at what point you cease being Geordies geographically. I'll check with my mum next time I speak to her since that half of my family are all Geordies.
How did it happen? Quote from http://www.bobjude.co.uk/photo/newc/who.htm I also found this page which is of a more historical look at older origins for Geaordie as a name http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.ne ... rigins.htm That was just one from a quick Google. Well that's Geordies for you - what about all those scousers now? (Scousers are from the Liverpool area) or Weegies (from the Glasgow area).[/url]
Shamelessly stealing this thread... Do you Britons still celebrate Bonfire Night? Its today if I'm not totally wrong... Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up King and Parliament. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King! A penny loaf to feed the Pope A farthing o' cheese to choke him. A pint of beer to rinse it down. A faggot of sticks to burn him. Burn him in a tub of tar. Burn him like a blazing star. Burn his body from his head. Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead. Hip hip hoorah! Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
We do indeed. Bonfire night or Guy Fawkes night is the annual celebration in the name of a man we had tortured and brutally executed a few centuries ago... A cheerful lot aren't we?
Sure you are Thought Guy managed to slip from that brutal execution but still... I find it rather amusing that you have this kind of celebration of failed assassination attempt and naming for it.
He did, he was due to be hung Drawn and quartered ut jump from the scaffold so that he broke his neck rather than slowly be strangled by the noose
Yup. Guy Fawkes night & Bonfire night are the same thing. Isn't that what the latter half of this thread is all about?
There's also the fact that your not a real country unless you have a reason to crack off fireworks once a year (and new year doesn't count) does have to be a good reason, there just has to be a reason.
