Happy Cinco de Mayo...it's a Texas thing

GrouchoM
GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
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Cinco de Mayo (pronounced: [ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo]; Spanish for "May 5th", or literally, "Fifth of May") is a celebration held onMay 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over French forces at theBattle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16.
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  • kswildcat
    kswildcat Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually it's a thing wherever there is a large group of Latinos.  Dodge City,  Garden City and Great Bend KS same as shut down for it...

    Use to be the meat packing plants all but shut down but since most the workers now are from the middle east it's different. 
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just another excuse to party and get sloshed.
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,904 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As if you need an excuse
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Big here in San Jose too, has gotten out of hand in the past with drunken brawls
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  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,726 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I ate Mexican for lunch. Happy coincidence. I didn't even remember the date until I was there. Maybe I'll sip some o that Mexican hooch tonight, but I'll have to remember.
  • Poopy_Jones
    Poopy_Jones Posts: 455 ✭✭✭
    Here in Phoenix it's quite popular and is moving up the ladder as one of the larger amateur drunk nights like New Years Eve & St Paddys Day. One of my worst hangovers ever was suffered on May 6

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amateur, a true pro would have the hangover on the 7th.  :)
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  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,984 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    Amateur, a true pro would have the hangover on the 7th.  :)
    The pros don't get hungover.
  • The3Stogies
    The3Stogies Posts: 2,652 ✭✭✭✭
    I smoked a Cinco-Vegas, does that count?

    I used to be a pro, friends would come over I usually had a drink going anytime.  Told them it was training, to be good at anything you have to train right.  No way was I going to pass out at a party and get painted.  
  • Patrickbrick
    Patrickbrick Posts: 8,086 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CharlieHeis said:
    Yakster said:
    Amateur, a true pro would have the hangover on the 7th.  :)
    The pros don't get hungover.
    This is true, what's a hangover?
    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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