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[mamculuna]

Diwali greetings to all who celebrate! More light!

I love all the celebrations of light as the year grows dark.

And I don't know what you say on Guy Fawkes day...

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[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

I COULD look it up, but what is Diwali?

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

It's the Festival of Lights (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Festivals/Diwali.html) in India--a really pretty celebration with lots of candles.

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

Oooh, OK, thanks! Now I remember.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Actually, in India, it's oil lamps traditionally, I think. I've see candles here though.

[usedtobeljs]

More light to you!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

And I don't know what you say on Guy Fawkes day...

Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

Boom today!

Well, that's what I say on Guy Fawkes day.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me! I only got to celebrate it once, and that was in China 1994, so everyone was very much into it and into singing Rule Britannia, etc.--which I assume is not typical. They did have a Guy in a wheelbarrow and we did jump over the fire. Is all that still common?

[missprune.livejournal.com]

"Remember the Guy!" is what you say. :o)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

OK! Remember the Guy!

I knew about "A penny for the Guy," but figured only kids with an actual Guy could say that.

[maeve-rigan.livejournal.com]

Belatedly--on Guy Fawkes Day, you say, "Remember remember the fifth of November /
Gunpowder, treason and plot. / I see no reason why gunpowder, treason / Should ever be forgot." And then, if you have a "guy," you ask for a penny :-)

On the whole, I prefer Diwali, but maybe that's because I'm not British ;-)