<div dir="auto">Hi Rick,</div><div dir="auto"> I am interested in coming. But supposedly I will be substitute teaching at a local high school on Tuesday until 4:30 pm on Tuesday. What do you think?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Your friend,</div><div dir="auto">Elise Scher</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 8:56 AM Rick Moen <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[Written for a different audience. Y'all here probably already<br>
know the hilarious car and my ethnicity.]<br>
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Guy Fawkes Day beckons! Since there'll be nothing else happening on<br>
Tuesday, Nov. 5th, I wanted to invite neighbours to join me in Muir<br>
Beach, Marin County to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, part of our British<br>
heritage. I'll be driving up from West Menlo Park about 2pm, stopping<br>
only in West Portal to get some Irn Bru.<br>
<br>
You might have questions.<br>
<br>
Q: What's Guy Fawkes Day, and why should I as an American care?<br>
A: It's the annual celebration of the Gunpowder Plot being defeated, in<br>
1605 London. We're an escaped British colony, so it's part of our<br>
heritage.<br>
<br>
Q: What, are you British?<br>
A: No, laddie, I'm Norwegian-American. But I learned to love Guy<br>
Fawkes Day in British Hong Kong, in the '60s.<br>
<br>
Q: What's Irn Bru?<br>
A: The quintessentially Scottish soft drink. Try it; you'll like it.<br>
Eezy Freezy on West Portal stocks it.<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/eezyfreezysf/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/eezyfreezysf/</a><br>
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Q: What's going to happen in Muir Beach?<br>
A: Well, first I'll be hanging out inside or outside of the charmingly<br>
British Pelican Inn. <a href="https://www.pelicaninn.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pelicaninn.com/</a> On Guy Fawkes Day,<br>
the trick is to get there EARLY, as it fills up. But, if you get there<br>
early, you can enjoy a pint of good ale and bangers'n'mash in peace.<br>
<br>
Q: Earlier than what?<br>
A: After dark, there's a cheery pedestrian parade from the Inn down a<br>
trail to adjacent Muir Beach, where there will be a couple of bonfires<br>
for the ceremonial Burning of the Guy (the effigy of key conspirator Guy<br>
Fawkes). Remember the rather confused metaphor about him in "V for<br>
Vendetta"? That Guy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot</a><br>
<br>
Q: So, you're going to be sitting around from about 3 pm until, what,<br>
8pm?<br>
A: Probably. I'm bringing my e-book reader. And a Norwegian sweater,<br>
and a windbreaker. And a brolly (because the weather is often<br>
authentically British, too).<br>
<br>
Q: Are you saying I can hitch a ride?<br>
A: Three of you can, sure. I'm reachable at (650) 283-7902<br>
.<br>
<br>
Q: In what?<br>
A: Hilariously small Honda Fit econobox. Nope, not British.<br>
<br>
Q: Why?<br>
A: I dunno, maybe because it's different. Maybe you like the coast,<br>
bonfires, rustic pubs, and sitting with a pleasant crowd waiting for a<br>
pedestrian parade. Don't knock it until you try it.<br>
<br>
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