"what a waste of gunpowder and sky"

[mrph]

Transatlantic differences, part vii.

The United States use fireworks to celebrate their independence day, July 4th.

And what do we do? We pick a cold winter night, November 5th, and we use them to celebrate a man who tried to blow up our government.

Hmmm. Works for me...

Comments

[giggly-teapot.livejournal.com]

celebrate the festival of light instead, much better idea bringing light to the darkest night. The Hindu faith use the lunar calendar to workout which night will be the darkest, i.e. the nearest night to the shortest day without any moonlight, and let off fireworks to bring back the light. Nice idea, and it means that I can still have my fireworks.