Happy Cinco De Mayo

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Arriba!!! Ill celebrate any holiday that commemorates unwashed peasents beating the stuffing out of the French.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

I'll second that!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Here we serve Tequila

/me pours a shot and gives it to Gorgon menacingly.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"That tastes a little odd."
"Probably watered down."

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

"Today you die with a Mans gun, not a little sissy gun!"

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

I'm underage, and anti-alcohol.  How about we celebrate with a nice coke intead... I like coke... or Milk... Dairy is good...

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Here we only serve Tequilla!!!

[Maxwell]

what about guinness or castlerock?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Its imaginary Tequilla or nothing for you scallywags....

(and Gorgun Im anti-alcohol too I was quoting a masterful and wonderful movie.... the Three Amigos)

[Fellfrosch]

If you want it to be authentically Mexican, you have to serve Coke. Of course, if you want it to be authentically Mexican you won't celebrate Cinco de Mayo at all. Crazy gringos.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Mexican or Mexican American? Maybe they don't celebrate in Mexico that much, but in Las Vegas, May 5 is a big day for parties among the hispanic communities. OF course, those communities don't need much of an excuse to gather boisterously and drink a lot and listen to loud music.

[Spriggan]

Cinco De Mayo is an American thing.  My friend Steve lived in mexico and they never celebrate it down there.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

It's a spanish thing, as in from spain, not mexico.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

no.
It is not a spanish thing. The battle was concerning a war of Mexican independence.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

The 5th of May is celebrated in the United States among the Mexican-American population, especially in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Various Mexican-American societies use the celebrations to commemorate the overthrow of the Mexican Imperial Monarchy headed by Maximilian of Austria. The Imperial Monarchy was imposed from 1864 to 1867 on Mexico by Napoleon III, Emperor of France (nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) and the Mexican conservatives "Club de Notables".

http://www.nacnet.org/assunta/spa5may.htm