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Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Knight Templar on May 05, 2002, 09:29:09 pm
Happy Cinco De Mayo to everyone!!


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Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: IceFire on May 05, 2002, 11:01:11 pm
Seeing as I and probably others don't know (and do forgive our ignorance), but what is Cinco De Mayo?

Educate us :)
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Knight Templar on May 06, 2002, 12:49:02 am
lol cinco de mayo is spanish (or mexican, its a holiday in mexico) for "5th of May".

Its basically their 4th of july cept i tihnk it was the day they were liberated from spain.
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Nuclear1 on May 06, 2002, 09:48:01 am
Cinco De Mayo=5th of May

That is the day Mexico won its independence from Spain after nearly three centuries of Spanish rule.
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 06, 2002, 04:40:59 pm
...Mostly an excuse for US Americans to get drunk, actually. Until recently, they hardly even celebrated it in Mexico.

Come to think of it, what holiday ISN'T an excuse to get drunk?:D
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Corsair on May 06, 2002, 05:02:16 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
...Mostly an excuse for US Americans to get drunk, actually. Until recently, they hardly even celebrated it in Mexico.

Come to think of it, what holiday ISN'T an excuse to get drunk?:D
Correct me if I'm wrong (not sure if it's a holiday) but what about Lent? :D
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 06, 2002, 05:05:27 pm
...Day before and after.;)

Perticularly after, though that's got it's own set of names.
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Knight Templar on May 06, 2002, 05:17:46 pm
Lent!?!?! What the hell is lent?

Isn't it that stuff you find in your pants?
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Stryke 9 on May 06, 2002, 05:20:13 pm
...For some of us.:D
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: IceFire on May 06, 2002, 05:32:22 pm
Lent is some sort of Christain thing...but I don't really know what it is.  I don't attend church too often nor am I terribly church going religious (which doesn't mean im not religious either).
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Corsair on May 06, 2002, 05:53:46 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Lent!?!?! What the hell is lent?

Isn't it that stuff you find in your pants?
:lol:
That's lint!:wakka:
I think that during Lent, Christian people give up certain things that they like. I'm not sure though cuz I'm not Christian. Anybody wanna help out?
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Knight Templar on May 06, 2002, 06:12:07 pm
Oh i know what it is now, im christian and its not really christian as much as it is catholic, at least i think so
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Nuclear1 on May 06, 2002, 09:34:47 pm
Catholocism is a form of Christianity, along with Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians (Jehovah's Witnesses are not a religion, though they say they are). I'm a dedicated Lutheran. Lent is a fully Christian holiday that remembers the the last days of Jesus Christ, his suffering and his death.

We give up things during this season of church because Jesus gave up his life willfully for us.

Hope this helps.
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Knight Templar on May 07, 2002, 08:25:21 pm
My thoughts exactly
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: delta_7890 on May 07, 2002, 08:54:28 pm
Why is this in the General Freespace forum?
Title: Happy Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Knight Templar on May 07, 2002, 09:48:16 pm
I have no clue, where else would it be?

(so maybe its alil' senseless seeing as how cinco de mayo is over but hey, its a holiday.....somewhat.....at least thats what they said at the bar in the bowling alley.....)