Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Started by Ancilla Domini, May 05, 2014, 03:26:02 PM

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Ancilla Domini

May 05, 2014, 03:26:02 PM
Wishing everyone a happy Cinco de Mayo!

I'll be celebrating later with fajitas and margaritas. :)


[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQGxFDINng[/yt]

drummerboy

#1
May 05, 2014, 04:44:22 PM
Oh,  I give in.  Happy Cinco de Mayo!
- I'll get with the times when the times are worth getting with

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Heinrich

#2
May 05, 2014, 04:53:33 PM
I have been to Puebla. Neat place.
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The Curt Jester

#3
May 05, 2014, 06:26:26 PM
Funny how Cinco de Mayo is a big thing in the U.S.
The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the Monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"

Ancilla Domini

#4
May 05, 2014, 06:35:37 PM
It took on a significance here totally different from the one it has in Mexico.

For want of a better source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo

Hector, Tamer of Horses

#5
May 05, 2014, 06:45:33 PM
I hope everyone celebrated Cinco de Cuatro yesterday?

"The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before."

-Dr. Johnson, Rasselas

The Curt Jester

#6
May 05, 2014, 06:50:30 PM
According to my Mexican mother, Cinco de Mayo isn't really celebrated down there.   Perhaps some things have changed in the years gone by, but I guess it wasn't back when she lived there.
The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the Monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"

Bonaventure

#7
May 05, 2014, 07:39:16 PM
Quote from: Ancilla Domini on May 05, 2014, 03:26:02 PM
Wishing everyone a happy Cinco de Mayo!

I'll be celebrating later with fajitas and margaritas. :)


[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQGxFDINng[/yt]

That's a great song. I'd prefer to celebrate with señoritas and margaritas, though.

Quote from: The Curt Jester on May 05, 2014, 06:50:30 PM
According to my Mexican mother, Cinco de Mayo isn't really celebrated down there.   Perhaps some things have changed in the years gone by, but I guess it wasn't back when she lived there.

It's the same here. My family has never celebrate it, save those who will drink whenever an opportunity arises.
"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

dymphna17

#8
May 05, 2014, 07:55:21 PM
So is everybody Mexican on Cinco de Mayo like everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day?
?
I adore Thee O Christ, and I bless Thee, because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world!

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph save souls!

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Bernadette

#9
May 05, 2014, 07:57:09 PM
Quote from: dymphna17 on May 05, 2014, 07:55:21 PM
So is everybody Mexican on Cinco de Mayo like everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day?

My thoughts exactly!
My Lord and my God.

erin is nice

#10
May 05, 2014, 08:11:31 PM
I am having a margarita right now!

Ancilla Domini

#11
May 05, 2014, 08:41:20 PM
Quote from: Hector, Tamer of Horses on May 05, 2014, 06:45:33 PM
I hope everyone celebrated Cinco de Cuatro yesterday?

With a name like Hector I keep hoping you're Hispanic. Yeah, I know. The Tamer of Horses was a Trojan. But still... :lol:

Ancilla Domini

#12
May 05, 2014, 08:43:31 PM
Quote from: The Curt Jester on May 05, 2014, 06:50:30 PM
According to my Mexican mother, Cinco de Mayo isn't really celebrated down there.   Perhaps some things have changed in the years gone by, but I guess it wasn't back when she lived there.

It still isn't. It's celebrated more in Texas than in any other place I've lived.

Ancilla Domini

#13
May 05, 2014, 08:48:48 PM
Quote from: erin is nice on May 05, 2014, 08:11:31 PM
I am having a margarita right now!

¡Salud!

MilesChristi

#14
May 05, 2014, 09:04:36 PM
Viva Maximiliano!

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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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