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Tom Francis - SWSports Tom Francis - SWSports is offline
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Default Happy Guy Fawkes Day!!

Interesting bit of trivia - did you know that the word "guy" came out
of the infamous plot to blow up the English Parliament? Turns out
after Fawkes was hanged, guy used to mean a-hole.

Time sure has scrubbed that one clean.