Ah. It’s Cinco De Mayo again. For a long time, all I knew about this day was taught to me by my fifth grade Spanish/social studies teacher in grade school. It means “”Fifth of May” in Spanish. Kind of like how we say Fourth of July to make it sound cooler. Any other Spanish I know is from taco bell commericals or that Spanglish speaking muppet.
According to some lazy googling between obsessively checking my myspace/facebook/twitter, I have learned that this day is to celebrate the Mexicans beating up some French in a battle 150 years ago. Seriously? Mexicans are celebrating the beating of a bunch of cigarette smoking mimes? That’s like celebrating the day you won a swimming competition with Stephen Hawking.
Similar to how the Irish celebrate St.Patrick’s Day for chasing all the snakes out of Ireland by getting drunk and wearing green, Mexicans celebrate by outrunning Wile E. Coyote for fun and drinking themselves senseless. Let’s not forget both also grant you permission of wear ridiculous hats.
Actually. That’s last year’s model. The 2009 sombrero looks alittle more like this:
Now that you know the proper attire, get out of and enjoy! Get your awkward white girl dance on and be sure to do a shot of any booze that ends in “a”. I myself plan to drink a whole bottle of piñata.
Tags: cinco de mayo, fun, hats, muppets, party, stephen hawking, swine flu
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I just want to make out with all three of them. And Stephen Hawking.