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Can’t let you do that, Guy Fawkes.

Zabuza is good (with his obscure English history references), but I’m better!

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Can’t let you do that, Guy Fawkes.



Posted by Shawn Handyside on April 30, 2008 · 11:21 AM 
FAILLAMENOT BADPRETTY GOODAWESOME (206 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5)
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Stephen · 888 weeks ago

Video game characters always makes British history better.
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Shawn Handyside · 888 weeks ago

Did I ever mention I love this song?

I hope we get more StarWolf submissions. :D
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Ghost · 888 weeks ago

I gotta say, not impressed.
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Dan · 888 weeks ago

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MushroomBoy · 888 weeks ago

i love these. the subtitle thing is jsut as good as the one in the pic.
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Rodrigo · 888 weeks ago

I think this will generate more clones. Anyways, this is a good one!
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Mike · 888 weeks ago

this is a jeopardy level lol... you laugh, you learn, we all come away better people
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Selv · 888 weeks ago

You get points for the obscure Vendetta reference, but Wolf stands out too much in that picture. I think it would've been better if you had tried to make him look like he was part of the picture.
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killercartoons · 888 weeks ago

@Selv, yeah that would be cool

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i just hope this doesn't lead to more clones because it can only go down hill from here
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john · 888 weeks ago

lol, wtf is a guy fawkes? French people are so retarded!
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Scott · 888 weeks ago

I thought the Starbucks one was wittier. This one was pretty good, but I can see a meme forming in the distant future.
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Scott · 888 weeks ago

Oh boy...I don't like where this is going...........OVER 9000 bad memes later.
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Red · 888 weeks ago

I like this just because it's a pun AND a historical reference. Maybe if we only accpeted one of these a year the joke could stay funny.
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Crest · 888 weeks ago

@ John: Obscure ENGLISH History references...

Basically, him trying to suicide bomb the King gave us November 5th, our (original) version of the 4th of July Fireworks and fires and stuff... the joke would work better without the Guy I think, but still pretty damn LOL.
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S · 888 weeks ago

fawke youuuu
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Boreas · 888 weeks ago

@Crest: Yeah... It would have been more smooth-sounding with just "Fawkes"
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Haywire · 888 weeks ago

Why all the "I can't let you do that" ones lately?
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sir_auronDX · 888 weeks ago

ahhh yess
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sir_auronDX · 888 weeks ago

guy fawkes wanted to blow up parliment

Guy:IM GOING TO PLANT THE BOMB

Although someone tipped off guards and they found and caught him...star wolf must have been on duty...then he was executed
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L L + P · 888 weeks ago

I hardly think it's obscure. I mean, it was only a plan to blow up parliment. The man was hung, drawn and quartared. His head was outside the tower for over a year. The idea of burning a 'guy' on a bonfire is named after him. Theres not a Brit alive who doesn't know Guy Fawkes. Just because the US doesn't have it, doesn't make it obscure, just american ignorant.

Man, that sounds really accusatory, it's not meant to be, but I'm not keen on my history being degraded. Especially when we have so much more of it that america.

As for the pic, I like it. The fawkes/fox pun is cool. Nice to see a clever one going on the British reference.
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AustN · 888 weeks ago

Good, but not as good as Starbucks
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Kain · 888 weeks ago

Someone set us up a bomb o.O?
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Personae Non Gratae · 888 weeks ago

@L L + P

Just becuase it's well known in England and obscure in American doesn't mean we're ignorant. There's plenty of obscure American people, facts and dates you Brits would have no clue about but that doesn't make you ignorant. A little compassion and empathy will get you a long way my friend. ;-)
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Skyler · 888 weeks ago

Remember, remember, the fifth of November!

Extra bonus points for referencing obscure (to us Americans, as L L + P pointed out) history that inspired a semi-obscure book that inspired an underrated movie!
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g.c. · 888 weeks ago

lol, I love wierd references.
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smashpro1 · 888 weeks ago

It's not obscure to me because I watched V for Vendetta
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Zabuza · 888 weeks ago

Lol, thanks guys.

I'm American, by the by; I just thought this was a classic reference.

@selv, yeah I know. I couldn't figure out a shadow that would work with the old timey background.

@Crest and Boreas, I was told it was pronounced "Ghee", kinda like G in girl and a long e sound.
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Ryumaru · 888 weeks ago

Crap! I'm trying to think of a barrel roll joke here... can someone help me?
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Captain Obvious · 888 weeks ago

Really there's not much to a barrel roll joke, unless you're playing donkey kong or something
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smashpro1 · 888 weeks ago

Barrels of gunpowder?
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Paulrus · 888 weeks ago

Was the Starbucks one the beginning of a new meme?
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Kevin J. · 888 weeks ago

This one was pretty funny, but I still like the Starbucks one a bit better..
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Flagman · 888 weeks ago

FAWKES! THERE'S A BOMB IN THE BASE!
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Rodrigo · 888 weeks ago

Do a barrel (of gunpownder) roll!
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Gaudion · 888 weeks ago

I'm sorry, but this one blows the other one away. Full of win.
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deth2gerbilz · 888 weeks ago

Warning: meme under construction
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Shew · 888 weeks ago

I like them both, but this is much more win than the Bucks one...
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Yoshara · 888 weeks ago

Wolf is everywere making sure people can't do things.
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FrEEz · 888 weeks ago

Hehe, that was the LAST thing i expected on halolz. Still great though. I need to think up one of these...

5 stars
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killercartoons · 888 weeks ago

@smashpro1,

barr-rolls of gunpowder?
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Memoriam · 888 weeks ago

Someone set up us the bomb. (someone had to say it)
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john · 887 weeks ago

wtf is a parliament?

I stand by what I said when I said French people are retarded.
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Passerby · 887 weeks ago

@John

First off, It's English.

Secondly, No one appreciates your flaming of the French.

Au revoir, mon ami.
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Crest · 887 weeks ago

@ John: ... what is a parliament?

It's a British version of Congress (if you ask what a congress is I'm gonna have to ask where your from)

@ Zabuza: I wasn't around in the 16th century but I'm fairly confident we still said it Guy like "Guh-Eye" (that was hard to work out >_>). Ghee Fawkes woulda flowed better though, I agree, so I see where it was coming from.
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FrEEz · 887 weeks ago

@ Crest : When i got taught about Guy Fawkes in school, i remember our teacher telling us that's where the word 'Guy' came from, so i doubt it was 'Ghee Fawkes'. Seriously if it was, then who was smoking what when they decided that 'Guy' will be pronounced 'Ghee'
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Zabuza · 887 weeks ago

Well, I heard about the story from a teacher who was French. Perhaps that's why; regardless, it's how I thought of it.

Doesn't really matter.. it works both ways.
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killercartoons · 887 weeks ago

@Memoriam, haha, i just thought of that! nice

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also, whats the big deal? personally i didnt get the ref right away, (never really liked history) but i figured it out and it was good! still like the starbucks one (a little) better though
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john · 886 weeks ago

What? Britan is a monarchy retard. Its not democratic, we invented that.
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Zabuza · 886 weeks ago

Actually, John, the democratic system started with the ancient Greeks.

Britain is a parlimentary system with a figurehead monarchy.
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