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Old 05-09-2010, 09:33 PM
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Soooooo I was @ a resturant in Marskville Thurs, and the Indian waitress was asking me if I was going to celebrate Cinco De Mayo..

I told her yes, because its an American tradition to celebrate a Mexican holiday.

I thought the whole deal was a little ironic, but hell we will throw a party for anyting.
Marksville???? Man were you lost?
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Old 05-09-2010, 11:14 PM
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anyone else heard of this? I heard cinco de mayo in the US was introduced by corona to sell more beer. just like hallmark with mothers day/fathers day/ and the like. I assume its a real holiday in mexico but here it was publicized by corona
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anyone else heard of this? I heard cinco de mayo in the US was introduced by corona to sell more beer. just like hallmark with mothers day/fathers day/ and the like. I assume its a real holiday in mexico but here it was publicized by corona
Lol havent heard that, who told you?
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Old 05-10-2010, 01:59 PM
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my girlfriend's dad told me that. He isn't really one to tell stories. But who knows his source may have had bad info
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decided to look it up and heres what I found. seems like it is just a ploy by the beer companies
http://hnn.us/articles/126189.html
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Old 05-10-2010, 07:11 PM
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Didnt know if yall saw this or not but these kids got kicked out of school for wearing American flag clothing on this cinco de mayo
http://www.newsnet14.com/2010/05/06/...cinco-de-mayo/
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Old 05-10-2010, 07:52 PM
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Didnt know if yall saw this or not but these kids got kicked out of school for wearing American flag clothing on this cinco de mayo
http://www.newsnet14.com/2010/05/06/...cinco-de-mayo/
Yea I think somebody had posted that. It's a sad sad day in America when you get sent home from school because you wore an American flag shirt to school...
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Yea I think somebody had posted that. It's a sad sad day in America when you get sent home from school because you wore an American flag shirt to school...
There was a video of the boys, in the video the news crew quoted one of the Mexican-American girls saying some dumb crap about how Cinco De Mayo is about Mexico's Independence.....what and ****ing idiot lol
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Cinco de Mayo only comes once a year,but Honky (or river rats)day is everyday.
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Cinco de Mayo?
It was an obscure holiday that no one in Mexico celebrated until Corona Beer used it as an ad campaign to sell more beer. It worked.
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