Cinco de Mayo - Thursday - 050505

Joe Joe · May 3, 2005

Beware...the 6th of June 2006 is almost a year away.

rrj_gamz · May 3, 2005

I'll be watching the Rox kicking the Mavs ass' all over Houston...I'll also be eating fajitas and drinking margaritas...

dskillz · May 3, 2005

I understand that the holiday is not huge in Mexico and the historical significance is minimal. But most US holidays are based on smaller deals than this.

That said, I will be at Champps, sucking down $1 pints on Thursday and eating whatever Cinco de Mayo food specials they have.

Mulder · May 3, 2005

Lost my virginity on Cinco de Mayo (many many many moons ago...)

Love that holiday.

bottlerocket · May 3, 2005

Actually real mexicans like me drink Bud-Lite

SwoLy-D · May 3, 2005

Originally posted by Uprising
Ouch, I think the red font in your post just burned holes in my eyes Swoly.

That red font is NASTY.
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Done.

Originally posted by coma
Swoly-

Where do your fine Latin sisters congregate to celebrate to this joyous occasion?
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SwoLy has no sisters... only brothers... one is single! Interested? jk

There will be plenty of parties downtown and at most bars... I'd say Mundo Latino or Bar Latino on Harwin?

Originally posted by SamCassell
You could think of O'Doul's but not Guinness?
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Hey, forgive, but I am not a beer connoisseur. With 2 zimas I am giggling like an Astroworld ride attendant.

EDIT: bump. One DAY AWAY. ONE, DAY, AWAY (a'la Charles Smith from the Knicks in 1994).

Franchise3 · May 4, 2005

Originally posted by Fatty FatBastard
Ummmmmmm.

O'Doul's is a non-alcoholic beer.

Try Guinness, or Bass, or Harp.
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Bass is an English beer.

Don't insult the Irish like that.

mateo · May 4, 2005

Did he just say ZIMA?

SwoLy-D · May 4, 2005

Originally posted by mateo
Did he just say ZIMA?

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ALAS, I did. I'm moving UP to Smirnoff black or red.

david_rocket · May 4, 2005

Originally posted by A-Train
www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm

Apparently, cinco de mayo was the day that Mexico defeated the French army at Puebla in 1862.

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Yeah!, and the french came here very sure and confident they will win the war but not this time, my friends!!

SwoLy-D · May 5, 2005

BUMP, because it's TODAY!

basso · May 5, 2005

I though May was Masturbation Month

If you want something done right, do it yourself!

RocketMan Tex · May 5, 2005

Looks like a great day for happy hour at Taco Milagro......

JBIIRockets · May 5, 2005

anybody meeting fo the Rockets game tonight?

El_Conquistador · May 5, 2005

Happy Cinco de Mayo to all my people.

SwoLy-D · May 5, 2005

just received THIS from a friend (feel free to pass it on), I am sure it was on a website somewhere out there in InternetLand:

Cinco de Mayo

(A Brief History)

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!!
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meggoleggo · May 5, 2005

Originally posted by david_rocket
Yeah!, and the french came here very sure and confident they will win the war but not this time, my friends!!
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Much like the Mavs coming to town tonight.... They think they're gonna win it, but man are they wrong!

tigermission1 · May 5, 2005

BTW...

Does anyone know a nice Mexican restaurant where they will have cheap fajitas today? Me hungry

SwoLy-D · May 5, 2005

Originally posted by tigermission1
BTW...

Does anyone know a nice Mexican restaurant where they will have cheap fajitas today? Me hungry
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Teotihuacan on Airline and Patton. We call that "the cheap place" because it has a BUILD-A-Meal where you can choose a meal by picking 2 items from many categories. You can also have a "Michelada".

oh, what the hell, let's go.

El_Conquistador · May 5, 2005

Originally posted by SwoLy-D
Teotihuacan on Airline and Patton.
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A personal favorite. They recognize The_Conquistador when he walks in.

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