# Hey, it's Cinco De Mayo
**URL:** https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251
**Category:** RPGC Main Forum
**Created:** [May 5, 2005, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251 "2005-05-05T09:07:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Rinn](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Rinn)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/1 "2005-05-05T09:07:23Z")
Go eat tacos and drink tequila. It’s taco night!
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### Author:  [@The\_Nameless\_One](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_Nameless_One)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/2 "2005-05-05T09:10:42Z")
What happens on the Cinco De Mayo? Is it a special date? Forgive my ignorance but you made me curious.
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### Author:  [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/3 "2005-05-05T11:12:22Z")
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### Author:  [@Charlemagne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Charlemagne)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/4 "2005-05-05T11:17:34Z")
Is MAAAYOOONAISE an instrament!?!?
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### Author:  [@BlueMageOne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BlueMageOne)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/5 "2005-05-05T11:26:51Z")
> [@Gandalf the White](#):
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> What happens on the Cinco De Mayo? Is it a special date? Forgive my ignorance but you made me curious.
I think you just make some hamburgers, and drink Corona on the front lawn and shoot off any fireworks you have left over from the fourth of july
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### Author:  [@Genericangstyposter](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Genericangstyposter)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/6 "2005-05-05T11:30:04Z")
> **[Cinco de Mayo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo)**
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> Cinco de Mayo (pronounced \[ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo\] in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. The victory of the smaller Mexican force against a larger French force was a boost to morale for the Mexicans. A year after the battle, a larger French force defeated Zaragoza at the Secon In ...
😛
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### Author:  [@The\_Nameless\_One](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_Nameless_One)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/7 "2005-05-05T11:35:50Z")
> [@Genericangstyposter](#):
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> [Cinco de Mayo - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo)
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> 😛
Thanks, now I understand. Happy Cinco De Mayo, then! :biggrin:
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### Author:  [@Jenna](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Jenna)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/8 "2005-05-05T13:14:54Z")
Mmm for tacos.
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### Author:  [@Trillian](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Trillian)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/9 "2005-05-05T13:39:17Z")
Bah…Dia de los Muertos is way cooler.
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### Author:  [@Crotanks](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Crotanks)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/10 "2005-05-05T14:13:18Z")
Woo! Feliz Cinco de Mayo mis amigos! 😃
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### Author:  [@Steve](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Steve)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/11 "2005-05-05T14:16:41Z")
Er trill… the proper way to do that would be dia de los muertos, it’s only del if it’s de and el 😛
Edit: also, mis amigos, not mi amigos 😛
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### Author:  [@Kraken](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Kraken)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/12 "2005-05-05T14:34:32Z")
> [@Wikipedia](#):
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> Contrary to popular belief in the United States, Cinco de Mayo does not mark Mexican independence day. That distinction is reserved for dieciséis de septiembre (“September 16”), which is celebrated on the night of September 15 through to the early morning hours of September 16 with a re-enactment of the Grito de Dolores – the formal call for an end to Spanish rule in 1810 – at all offices belonging to the executive branch of government, from the president down to the municipal governments.
Good for Wikipedia. It gets on my nerves when I hear Cinco de Mayo referred to as Mexican Independence day. It reminds me to much of message board posts, and I’d rather chalk up that kind of annoyance to impotence in text than actual acceptance of a misconception.
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### Author:  [@Ramza](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ramza)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/13 "2005-05-05T15:50:00Z")
I’m eating Popeyes on a taco night? ☹
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### Author:  [@Liadan](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Liadan)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/14 "2005-05-05T16:10:10Z")
I am goign to the bars and getting piss ass drunk… thats how you celebrate… _smirks_
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### Author:  [@Amerycinsycho](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Amerycinsycho)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/15 "2005-05-05T16:14:16Z")
> [@Lanyx](#):
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> I’m eating Popeyes on a taco night? ☹
Pope Yes chicken?
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### Author:  [@Ramza](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ramza)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/16 "2005-05-05T16:54:43Z")
I love my Pope Yes chicken!
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### Author:  [@Crotanks](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Crotanks)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/17 "2005-05-05T16:57:21Z")
> [@Steve](#):
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> Edit: also, mis amigos, not mi amigos 😛
Yeah, I keep forgetting that thats suppose to be plural in Spanish. Thanks though.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Percival](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sir_Percival)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/18 "2005-05-05T18:04:54Z")
I never knew about this celebration/holiday this until this day.
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### Author:  [@Nightmare](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nightmare)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/19 "2005-05-05T19:22:35Z")
I Had to take an exam today, and guess which class, SPAINISH!!! I mean whats up with that? I dont care know because i aced the exam so i enjoyed my cinco de mayo. HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO!!!
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### Author:  [@Ramza](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ramza)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/hey-its-cinco-de-mayo/13251/20 "2005-05-05T20:55:56Z")
> [@Sir\_Percival](#):
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> I never knew about this celebration/holiday this until this day.
I still don’t really know what it’s about 😃 Freedom from the French or something
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