Happy Cinco de Mayo!!! (24)
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Right-on fellas!!!...
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Back and forth from the fiestas, good carne asada and cold cervesa!!!...
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Did you know they don't even celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico? That would be like Mexicans celebrating 4th of July and we didn't. 
Guess it's because we need to have an exuse to drink Mexican beer and they don't!
Guess it's because we need to have an exuse to drink Mexican beer and they don't!
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One of the best "holidays", if you ask me...
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Electricalstar: One of the best "holidays", if you ask me...
Actually...There is a few things i would like to ask you...
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redbellypirhana: Just want to wish you all a safe and festive Cinco de Mayo!!!
Out here, West and South West US, have been partying all weekend!!!
So here's to you guys (clicking 2 Pacificos together) Party on!!!...
Out here, West and South West US, have been partying all weekend!!!
So here's to you guys (clicking 2 Pacificos together) Party on!!!...
I am glad you have all been having a ball.... but I know nothing of the festival. Can you tell us more about it, my friend??!! Anyone??
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roseofsharon: I am glad you have all been having a ball.... but I know nothing of the festival. Can you tell us more about it, my friend??!! Anyone??
Abbreviated version:Cinco de Mayo is a date of great importance for the Mexican and Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Althought the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism. With this victory, Mexico demonstrated to the world that Mexico and all of Latin America were willing to defend themselves of any foreign intervention. Especially those from imperialist states bent on world conquest.
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In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army in what came to be known as the "Batalla de Puebla" on the fifth of May.
In the United States, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to be known as simply "5 de Mayo" and unfortunately, many people wrongly equate it with Mexican Independence which was on September 16, 1810, nearly a fifty year difference. Over, the years Cinco de Mayo has become very commercialized and many people see this holiday as a time for fun and dance. Oddly enough, Cinco de Mayo has become more of Chicano holiday than a Mexican one. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on a much larger scale here in the United States than it is in Mexico. People of Mexican descent in the United States celebrate this significant day by having parades, mariachi music, folklorico dancing and other types of festive activities.
As I said it's an excuse to drink Mexican beer!
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roseofsharon: I am glad you have all been having a ball.... but I know nothing of the festival. Can you tell us more about it, my friend??!! Anyone??
Cinco de Mayo is the celebration in Mexico of when a very very small group of Mexican forces defeated a very large army of French soldiers at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
I better know, since my elementary/junior high school used to do traditional dances to celebrate the day.
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Electricalstar: Oh yeah? And what would that be?
I thought you would be gone to bed
I just woke up all giddy and didnt think i would have to answer this till later tonight
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alabamabebe: Abbreviated version:
Cinco de Mayo is a date of great importance for the Mexican and Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Althought the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism. With this victory, Mexico demonstrated to the world that Mexico and all of Latin America were willing to defend themselves of any foreign intervention. Especially those from imperialist states bent on world conquest.
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In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army in what came to be known as the "Batalla de Puebla" on the fifth of May.
In the United States, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to be known as simply "5 de Mayo" and unfortunately, many people wrongly equate it with Mexican Independence which was on September 16, 1810, nearly a fifty year difference. Over, the years Cinco de Mayo has become very commercialized and many people see this holiday as a time for fun and dance. Oddly enough, Cinco de Mayo has become more of Chicano holiday than a Mexican one. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on a much larger scale here in the United States than it is in Mexico. People of Mexican descent in the United States celebrate this significant day by having parades, mariachi music, folklorico dancing and other types of festive activities.
As I said it's an excuse to drink Mexican beer!
Cinco de Mayo is a date of great importance for the Mexican and Chicano communities. It marks the victory of the Mexican Army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. Althought the Mexican army was eventually defeated, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to represent a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism. With this victory, Mexico demonstrated to the world that Mexico and all of Latin America were willing to defend themselves of any foreign intervention. Especially those from imperialist states bent on world conquest.
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In 1862, the French army began its advance. Under General Ignacio Zaragoza, 5,000 ill-equipped Mestizo and Zapotec Indians defeated the French army in what came to be known as the "Batalla de Puebla" on the fifth of May.
In the United States, the "Batalla de Puebla" came to be known as simply "5 de Mayo" and unfortunately, many people wrongly equate it with Mexican Independence which was on September 16, 1810, nearly a fifty year difference. Over, the years Cinco de Mayo has become very commercialized and many people see this holiday as a time for fun and dance. Oddly enough, Cinco de Mayo has become more of Chicano holiday than a Mexican one. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on a much larger scale here in the United States than it is in Mexico. People of Mexican descent in the United States celebrate this significant day by having parades, mariachi music, folklorico dancing and other types of festive activities.
As I said it's an excuse to drink Mexican beer!
Thanks...I was unaware of the festival as well...enjoy your beers..
I quite like corona with a lime twist..
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martyg: I thought you would be gone to bed
I just woke up all giddy and didnt think i would have to answer this till later tonight
I just woke up all giddy and didnt think i would have to answer this till later tonight
Hahaha! Nice try, I don't have to work tomorrow, and the celebration for Cinco de Mayo doesn't start til later in the day for me lol!
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Electricalstar: Cinco de Mayo is the celebration in Mexico of when a very very small group of Mexican forces defeated a very large army of French soldiers at the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
I better know, since my elementary/junior high school used to do traditional dances to celebrate the day.
I better know, since my elementary/junior high school used to do traditional dances to celebrate the day.
Thank you for that, sweetie.... sounds fascinating!! I will look up some more on it.
Hope it was a blast.... defeating the French?? Always worth a celebration....!!
I jest, of course.....
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roseofsharon: I am glad you have all been having a ball.... but I know nothing of the festival. Can you tell us more about it, my friend??!! Anyone??
Hi Alison
Wonder if you wouldn't mind helping a friend out by telling Electricalstar that i am a really lovely guy,
that way i might be able to bypass all the chat up lines to get a date with her
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Out here, West and South West US, have been partying all weekend!!!
So here's to you guys