Pope and Dubya blown up in small English town

by lmurch | November 5, 2006 at 02:53 pm

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The Bonfire Night celebrations were as fiery as usual in Lewes, a small county town in the South of England, with effigies of the Pope, George Bush with poodle Tony Blair, and - strangely - Steve Irwin, all ceremonially burnt at one of the town's six large bonfires.

Peter Messer can't imagine why anyone would take umbrage at the ritual burning of a pope in effigy.

Sitting at the Lewes Arms pub, the unofficial headquarters of his Commercial Square Bonfire Society, Messer says those who complain overlook an important detail.

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