Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for July 05, 2009

gmartin997, It could possibly be a celebration of something else then. Who Knows, I’m sure someone will think of an answer like maybe a festival where people get together an honor something important like a rite of passage. or a coming of age. I don’t know, I’m just making that up as an example.

The sound of fireworks is frightening. Sounds like gunshots. It’s upsetting, and in my city illegal, but people still do it.

I’m curious if todays school children know where gun powder was invented? Any teachers know?

rmleon said, “The sound of fireworks is frightening. Sounds like gunshots.”

In a neighborhood where I once lived, it was easy to tell the difference between the sounds of fireworks and gunfire.

I’m glad I don’t live in that neighborhood anymore.

Wasn’t gunpowder invented in China?

I wonder who in Id other than the King can afford fireworks

Last night we were treated to a show that lasted about 90 minutes! Between the neighbors shooting off fireworks and those we could see in the distance from municipalities around us (we live on a hill), it was great. No traffic, just standing around the yard chatting up the neighbors and oohing and aahing. Of course, I’m a fireworks junkie anyway. I still can’t believe these folks spend that much $$ on the fireworks, but I’m grateful they do!

Technically England is a kingdom, and if I’m not mistaken, they shoot off fireworks to celebrate VE Day.

Don’t you remember? It’s the celebration of the day Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum took out the mother ship so we could shoot down all those darned aliens.

They were celebratin Id Dependence Day.

Well put iamtxmilady. King Fink thought the peasents were revolting….. o yeah, he always thought that they were revolting…nevermind

Hello Notinksanymore - I just thought I’d mention that we don’t really use fireworks to celebrate VE Day here in the UK (although I’m sure some might do). Our big fireworks day is 5th November - Guy Fawkes Day aka as Bonfire Night. It’s a celebration (for want of a better word!) of the day Guy Fawkes and his gang were caught attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The celebration includes burning Guy Fawkes on a bonfire after kids have dragged it rounds the streets asking for “a penny for the Guy”. It’s an interesting story. Oh, and just to finish it off, we eat potatoes cooked on the bonfire, toffee apples and treacle toffee together with a cake known as “Parkin” :-)

to lady wolf i think they are celebrating because the executor has been layed off. lol

Quite right EllieJ – and as a result it celebrates the victory of the King over the revolutionaries, so maybe you could call it a “Dependence Day!”

It sounds like my city. Tomb Stone AZ. Everyday is the 4th. of July.

grampaspot

I was a substitute teacher. Does that count? Although the exact dates and times are not known, the closest the invention of gunpowder can be nailed down to is 200 BC in China.

“The King is a fink!”