Scrabble Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Its May 4th That means Cinco De Mayo is TOMORROW Not that anyone needed to be reminded http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/ScribbleScrabble/Mariachi.bmp'> http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/ScribbleScrabble/Menudo.bmp'> http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/ScribbleScrabble/Bee.bmp'> http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/ScribbleScrabble/Nike_Cortez.bmp'> http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/ScribbleScrabble/Sunglasses.bmp'> SO...do what you are supposed to do....on Cinco De Mayo, whatever that is. http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/ScribbleScrabble/bufanda.bmp'> BUFANDA!!!! thats the only spanish I know, sorry. In case I dont see you tomorrow, happy Cinco De Mayo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachian Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 :mexican: happy cinco de mayo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabble Posted May 5, 2004 Author Share Posted May 5, 2004 Is it true that Cinco De Mayo is a U.S. thing? Someone told me that they celebrated it the first year they moved from Mexico to the U.S. What the hell is it about anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachian Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Originally posted by Scrabble Is it true that Cinco De Mayo is a U.S. thing? Someone told me that they celebrated it the first year they moved from Mexico to the U.S. What the hell is it about anyway? I thought it was the mexican independence day.... yeah...i am pretty sure about that......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalestineOne Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 http://www.thesexgate.com/0404/noire/images/06.jpg'> for the kids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 it's kinda becoming like st. patty's day.... an excuse for people to drink who needs excuses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachian Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Originally posted by Vanity it's kinda becoming like st. patty's day.... an excuse for people to drink who needs excuses? :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrabble Posted May 5, 2004 Author Share Posted May 5, 2004 Originally posted by Vanity it's kinda becoming like st. patty's day.... an excuse for people to drink who needs excuses? Yeah Bachain A history teacher on the bus (yeah, i actually ask random people) told me it was for some Mexican Battle, and not for the actual independence Every mexican I ask tells me it's for Mexican Independence I really dont care either way, im bored....estoy aburrido Ha! 3 spanish words. I'll be fluent inside a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 :mexican: orale vato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachian Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 scabble.. that's pretty interesting to know..... i had no idea about it thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalestineOne Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 is everyone ignoring that giant picture of a dripping wet horny female? or am I the only one who can see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachian Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Originally posted by PalestineOne is everyone ignoring that giant picture of a dripping wet horny female? or am I the only one who can see it? where???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellbeefer Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be!_ And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be._ Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810._ And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico. So, why Cinco de Mayo?_ And why should Americans savor this day as well?_ Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez._ The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left._ The French, however, had different ideas. Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay._ They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire._ His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota._ Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion._ The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War. The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did. Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited._ Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns._ The Mexican Army was less stylish. General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks._ In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them._ The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes. When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away._ The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen._ This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War. Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French._ American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French._ The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City. It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862._ But who knows? In gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces._ As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America. Mexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans._ That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty._ There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862._ VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfreshsushi Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 i am really afraid for tomorrow night. i live next door to a mexican bar, and they've been closed for the last two days, with a big sign that says we will be open for cinco de mayo! and i thought they played the jukebox loud before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalestineOne Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 join da partay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulkillers Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 all i know is that a bar in muy town is having a cico de mayo wet t shirt conatst and i am going.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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