The Edenbridge Bonfire: Most deserving Guy

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Every year the people of Edenbridge, Kent (one of the top 10 Dail Mail Property Hotposts) burn a huge guy, this year it's Brand/Ross, but over the years many people have had this honour. But who was the most deserving?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
1999: Guy Fawkes	2
2002: Edwina Currie	1
2006: John McCririck	1
2005: John Prescott	1
2004: Tony Blair	1
2001: Anne Robinson	1
1997: Jacques Chirac	0
2000: Gordon Brown	0
2008: Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand	0
2003: Saddam Hussein	0
2007: Cherie Blair	0
1996: James Hewitt	0

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

John McCririck

^^^history's greatest monster

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 6 November 2008 11:59 (seventeen years ago)

1999: Guy Fawkes

Wha'?

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:02 (seventeen years ago)

Didn't they (or someone) do Gypsy Caravan travellers one year?

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

Also, isn't the JR/RB caricatures, um, quite nice? Friendly even?

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:04 (seventeen years ago)

That was Lewes I think?

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck this Middle England shit. None of them.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

I wonder if that was 1998 (which is suspiciously missing from their website).

http://www.edenbridgetown.com/assets_2006/bonfire/john_mccirick_2006.jpg

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:06 (seventeen years ago)

Think it's pretty safe to say that Hussein and Chirac are cunts though.

But yeah, seriously, fuck anyone who has a guy/celebrates Bonfire Night. Prissy English anti-Catholic bullshit.

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:06 (seventeen years ago)

Which was presumably why they chose Blair.

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)

Oh wait he wasn't officially a Catholic then.

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:08 (seventeen years ago)

it was Firle who burned the caravan effigy, just down the road from Lewes. that sucked. as a catholic tho i always enjoyed Lewes bonfire night's chaotic Wicker Man-style pagan fire festival vibe.

― WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:12 (seventeen years ago)

Are they the ones who burn crosses in graveyards? Edgy.

This year Firle has Gordon Brown - BIG surprise.

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:13 (seventeen years ago)

Fireworks >>>> Catholicism. Yours, a Catholic.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

I love how after everything that happened in 2001 the hate figure they all settled on was Anne Robinson.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

What did Brown do in 2000 by the way? That he hasn't done every year since 1997, I mean.

― Good Luck Usa! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

Lewes burnt George Bush I think, just for a change.

Lots of burning crosses:

http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/721002/?type=display

― NickB, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

I love how after everything that happened in 2001 the hate figure they all settled on was Anne Robinson.

She's a Catholic, that's why

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

T/S: making rude phone-calls versus burning people in effigy

― Good Luck Usa! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:17 (seventeen years ago)

I'm having a bonfire tonight (with fireworks) but beforehand I will be giving a short lecture to the children about the evils of Oliver Cromwell and how Guy Fawkes was set up.

Wow, those crosses. Wild.

― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

What did Brown do in 2000 by the way? That he hasn't done every year since 1997, I mean.

Fuel protest stuff?

― NickB, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

What did Brown do in 2000 by the way?

Petrol tax, lorry drivers protesting, no fuel getting to most of the country, all that.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:18 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, Brown did that did he? I thought it was some cunts of lorry drivers.

Is it wrong to want to round and burn a whole village or two?

― Good Luck Usa! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:19 (seventeen years ago)

Call in the Janjaweed

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

Siked for the Obama effigy in '09.

― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:24 (seventeen years ago)

"Mandy" Mandelson

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

Ilxor bonfire: burn Dom and Matt DC for flagrent popery.

― Spritz con Bitter (Ed), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:36 (seventeen years ago)

Fragrant potpourri

― NickB, Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.healingsofatlantis.com/images/939%20Pot%20Pourri%20-%20Tropical%20Shores%20100g.jpg

fragrant potpourri

― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:38 (seventeen years ago)

bah xpost!

― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:38 (seventeen years ago)

Fools seldom differ

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:39 (seventeen years ago)

http://open2dprot.sourceforge.net/Flicker/Icons/radioButtonON.gif2009: Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.)

― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

Welllllllll, I didn't want to come over all smarmy and toadying

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:46 (seventeen years ago)

You're on the list Tom. I believe you meet the "wit school did ye go tae?" criteria :)

― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

Presumably they pick ones that the crowd can boo genteel-ly, rather than cause riots i.e. Osama, Clinton, , Obama, etc..

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)

JAMES HEWITT
(THE LOVE RAT!!) 1996

THIS GUY WAS OVER 25FT TALL THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG HE IS HOLDING OPENS AND SIMULATED GOLD FALLS OUT THE BOOK CATCHES ON FIRE THEN HIS PRIVATE PARTS EXPLODE HE THEN BURNS IN AN ORGY OF FIRE AND FIREWORKS

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

Well, at least we know what Tim at KFC.EDU is doing these days.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 13:38 (seventeen years ago)

Presumably they pick ones that the crowd can boo genteel-ly, rather than cause riots i.e. Osama, Clinton, , Obama, etc..

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 November 2008 13:29 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

2003: Saddam Hussein

― Cool Hand Tiller (onimo), Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

I suspect there was a member of the Edenbridge Parish Council who mentioned that an Osama effigy might put the town at the top of Al Qaeda's target list or something. I can't imagine people being arsed either way about Clinton.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:27 (seventeen years ago)

Yes, Bill Clinton was hardly a hate figure in the UK

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

Or Hillary!

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:31 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 8 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 9 November 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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