Cinco de Mayo

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Hope you have the opportunity to sip a margarita and eat some fine Mexican food this evening in honor of the Mexican army defeating the French forces. The interesting thing in this Wikipedia post is that Cinco de Mayo is not really that big of a in Mexico. They celebrate their independence day in September. It turns out that Cinco de Mayo was popularized by college students of Mexican heritage who wanted to promote their student cultural organizations. September is too early in the school year to get events organized, so they chose the less important, but infinitely more planable Cinco de Mayo for their events. Of course any excuse to drink margaritas and eat mexican food is fine with me.

Via boingboing where the original post was about porn themed pinatas I think (it's in Spanish and I'm at work).