happy Cinco de Mayo!

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited May 2010 in The Clubhouse
While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.

show your Mexican pride today! ;)
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  • BottomFeeder
    BottomFeeder Posts: 1,684
    edited May 2010
    y tu tambien!
    "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Bob Seger
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited May 2010
    Little to no significance in Mexico, and I don't know much about Mexican heritage being celebrated - it's pretty much a drinking holiday here, nothing more.

    That being said, bottoms up!
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited May 2010
    Latin music and margaritas tonight!
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited May 2010
    danger boy wrote: »
    show your Mexican pride today! ;)
    You ask and you shall receive :D

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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited May 2010
    por que?
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited May 2010
    Eso es lo que ella dijo.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited May 2010
    Russ...me cagas....
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited May 2010
    Do Mexicans celebrate the 4th of July?
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,164
    edited May 2010
    So, is this the Mexican equivalent of St. Patrick's Day for the Irish (and the rest of us who just want an excuse to drink)?

    Anyway, happy 05/05!
    Alea jacta est!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited May 2010
    Is there a punchline coming?

    Not that I know of, why would they celebrate our independence? I don't care about boxing day like those hosers up north do.

    Cheers,
    Russ
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited May 2010
    No, I mean the real Mexicans. The ones in Mexico?
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  • m1aman
    m1aman Posts: 143
    edited May 2010
    danger boy wrote: »
    show your Mexican pride today! ;)

    Pffffffftttt...............
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited May 2010
    m1aman wrote: »
    Pffffffftttt...............

    Huh?

    Never mind. I'll just attribute that to your ignorance.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited May 2010
    Ricardo wrote:
    Huh?

    Never mind. I'll just attribute that to your ignorance.

    I would have never seen that eloquent and insightful post had you not quoted him....thanks so much...:rolleyes:
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited May 2010
    Ahhh, now I see! It's like St. Patrick's Day, but with Margaritas instead of Guinness.

    Wikipedia:
    Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a holiday held on May 5 that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Segu
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,141
    edited May 2010
    Alo..amigos ....enjoy....Play some "Los Lonely Boys ..Ondo.., Please..for me..;)

    :rolleyes:..Happy cinco de mio..:D.....play it ^^ loud too!!!
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited May 2010
    Happy "cinco de mayo".

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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited May 2010
    < rimshot >

    Joe is here all week, don't forget to tip your waitresses and bartenders.....
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  • jgido759
    jgido759 Posts: 572
    edited May 2010
    SolidSqual wrote: »
    No, I mean the real Mexicans. The ones in Mexico?

    The ARE no Mexicans in Mexico, they're ALL HERE! :eek: :D
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  • tommyboy
    tommyboy Posts: 1,414
    edited May 2010
    Saw this on yahoo webpage. Glad to see we have the right to support our country.

    Students Sent Home Over American Flag Shirts

    Looks like it was all resolved in the end, but shouldn't have gone that far anyway
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,164
    edited May 2010
    tommyboy wrote: »
    Saw this on yahoo webpage. Glad to see we have the right to support our country.

    Students Sent Home Over American Flag Shirts

    Looks like it was all resolved in the end, but shouldn't have gone that far anyway
    You missed the whole show, but there was thread earlier that got rather busy, so it was eventually locked. There's no need to start all over here.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited May 2010
    Kex wrote: »
    You missed the whole show, but there was thread earlier that got rather busy, so it was eventually locked. There's no need to start all over here.

    Timestamps are your friend...
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,164
    edited May 2010
    xcapri79 wrote: »
    ... If you want to get back to reality, this is a good book to read.
    http://www.amazon.com/World-Turned-Upside-Down-Global/dp/1594033757
    (This book may soon be banned in California, don't know this for sure but get it while you can.)
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    In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based.

    Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror—all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda.

    Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.

    Not sure about that one, but if you think it's about to be banned in California it's probably fairly radical. Fortunately, I don't have the time, and nor do I have a very high opinion of the Daily Mail (it's not a whole lot better than the National Enquirer here).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Enquirer
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,164
    edited May 2010
    Demiurge wrote: »
    Timestamps are your friend...
    I didn't feel any need to post a link, if that is what you meant.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited May 2010
    Kex wrote: »
    I didn't feel any need to post a link, if that is what you meant.

    He posted it before that thread ever existed.

    Like I said, timestamps are your friend. ;)
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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,164
    edited May 2010
    Demiurge wrote: »
    He posted it before that thread ever existed.

    Like I said, timestamps are your friend. ;)
    He he! You're right. It's late, I suppose ... or I'm pickled ... or both. Besides: it was all xcapri's fault for bringing it up again by responding to that post in the first place. Everyone else has long since moved on.
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