Happy Cinco de Mayo

“Have a few on me..I plan on toasting the tters and anyone else I can..”

“Ah, you beat me to it! Par-tay!”

“Happy CDM to u too”

“Hey Dub you got to be quick with your post and your drink!”

“Ever wonder what Cinco de Mayo was in celebration of?

Cinco de Mayo history

"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."

I hereby declare my independence. Eleven years later..."uhmmm, would you mind leaving now?"”

“Basically I like when they said it's the day of the dead.

Are you a mexican skiracer?”

“happy Cinco de Mayo, and happy anniversary to me! it's 3 years to the day that i've been putting up w/Tarpy's sh*t. LOLOL!! for real though, we met at a Cinco de Mayo party in 2001...ahhhh, it's a happy day.
:-)”

“lyra, kinda ironic. On 'independence day' you lost some. lol”

“I prefer St. Patrick's Day.... The beer is MUCH better, LOL”

“ahh but i gained so much more.

*hurl* :-D”

“ditto on that lyra”

“Hey Dub you got to be quick with your post and your drink!"
rox1


Well, I'm quick with the drink and if you ask my girlfriend I'm...wait a second...you mean an online post!”

“uno freo cervesa por favor!”

“lol...nada freo cervesa



Duh ...Dub..lol talk about a one track mind!”

“No, rox...I'm not Mexican. Although, I *did* take three years of Spanish in high school. ;-)”

“Thanks for this thread--it is our grandson's birthday today and you reminded us to call him and sing (badly) before he took off to school. He is six today.

Three years lyra--off to a good start!!”

“tell the little man Happy b-day from the tters!”

“A 5th of Mayonnasie????”

“Mayonnaise

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise
was manufactured in England.

In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the Condiment
scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.
This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise
ever delivered to Mexico....

But as we know....the great ship did not make it to New York....The
ship hit an iceberg and sank....and the cargo was forever lost....

The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were
eagerly awaiting its delivery....were disconsolate at the loss....

Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of
Mourning which they still observe to this day....

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th....and is known....of course....as Sinko de Mayo....

:0)”

“lol
I do believe I have learned something new today! thansk mother G”

“Oops!
I thought it was in celebration of their independence from France.

(See "A Mule (Two Mules?) For Sister Sara", starring Clint Eastwood and the reincarnated Mahatma Ghandi).”

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“Kühl! I hope to go to Puebla next Chyristmas to do Orizaba.”

“Is that a liqueur?”

“Waborita !!”

“Hola. I will mark Cinco de Mayo in beautiful downtown Seneca Rocks, WV, tomorrow night with a good friend. Menu: tacos y cervessa.

Muy buenos dias.”

“Muy bien! Have fun geo :D”

“They got tacos in Seneca Rocks??

Tomorrow is Tammy Wynette's birthday.

Drink one for Tammy, y'all!!!”

“She's mexican ???”

“Ain't Tammy dead?

I got a buddy who's her first cousin.”

“Is he mexican ?”

“Nope, he's 100% Alabama cracker.”

“somebody gotta be a mexican on here.”

“It's funny, but about 5 years ago, I had never even heard of Cinco de Mayo. I know it's Spanish for the 5th of May, but does anyone know what it is celebrating?”

“OPIE is part Mexican.

Cinco De Mayo history”

“I thought it was celebrating the invention of the margarita ??”

“Well, given the typical Cinco De Mayo celebration, that would seem to be the case.”

“The Making of Tammy Wynette
By David Vest

I first encountered the legend known as Tammy Wynette on my car radio one afternoon in 1966. I had just come from my steady gig at Ireland's Pub in Nashville, across the street from Vanderbilt University. As I started my yellow Corvair, unsafe at any speed but fun to drive if you didn't know that, I heard the opening lines of "Apartment Number 9," her first released recording.

I recognized the voice at once. I'd have known it anywhere. It was my old friend, Wynette Byrd, born Virginia Wynette Pugh, with whom I had worked and played and recorded in Birmingham for the past few years. She had not long ago kissed me goodbye outside the #&%!$cat-a-Go-Go club down under the viaduct, where we had gone to hear some blues. I turned the radio up in my Monza as loud as it could go. Damn, she sounded good! And the material was right for her.

When the song ended, I was surprised to hear the singer identified not as Wynette Byrd but as a "new" artist named Tammy Wynette. I can still remember how strange that felt.

God knows, playing piano at Ireland's was already weird enough. Half the audience were musicians, many of them well-known artists unwinding after sessions on Music Row a few blocks away. As I discovered during my standing gig, an unknown musician performing for a famous audience is usually way too innocent for his own good.”

“I guess i am TTs resident wetback, 11 oclock.....nap time”

“What no Cinco de Mayo celebrations today.

Now where's my tequila and habanero chilies?”

“Cinco De Mayo is so 143 years ago.”

“Yeah all the cool kids are celebrating seis de mayo this year :D”

“I thought it was Cinco De Drinko...”

“On Writer's Almanac today, Garrison Keilor said that Americans will eat 54,000,000 avocados today, the biggest avocado day of the year by far, mostly in guacamole at Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

Now, with at least 1 Margarita per avocado, and at least 1.25 oz/Margarita, that's over half a million gallons of tequila we're going to drink tonight...”

“I think I will drink after work tonight 9or maybe I should start AT work? Where are those bottles of rubbing alcohol?”

“any one watch the David Letterman show?

I ran down there to only miss the bus driving into the pinata by 5 mins
GRRRRRRR

then treebeard forgot to record it.

hope to have pics of it being built for ya today.”

“Margaritas on me, meet me at Sacco's lounge!! :-)”

“Cinco de Mayo's much more subdued here, thanks to monday's events. My neighbors, who always go out to a mexican restaurant and party, are actually staying home. Not that they won't get plastered, I'm sure.”

“I'll have a couple-o-cadillac Patron Margs! Thanks BS!”

“Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.

This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.

The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.”