Today is 05/05/05!

[Dis]

today is the day we celebrate yet another French defeat.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Ya know i wonder why texas has this big celebration for cinco de mayo if we fought them for our indepence too.. mexico that is.

[Donegeal]

Cinco de Mayo!

I did my shot of authentic Mexican Tequila, did you?

[Dr Strangelove]

You know there's a rural route 666 a few miles from here. Coincidently the office of one of my competitors is located on it. We go to the same church.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

coincidently tubes mom convinced him not to drive that route when he was moving texas instead he drove the long way around throu wyoming and kanas and ok and **** 700 miles out the way... that route goes thru new mexico

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Nikolai
616?

Oh, and MrFun: I have a major test on friday 13th, wish me luck.

uh oh

[Nikolai]

My thought exactly.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
coincidently tubes mom convinced him not to drive that route when he was moving texas instead he drove the long way around throu wyoming and kanas and ok and **** 700 miles out the way... that route goes thru new mexico

Now everyone point and laugh at Tubes for being a superstitious nitwit.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Now everyone point and laugh at Tubes for being a superstitious nitwit.

Thats not vey nice In his defense he was moving to a new state to be with me whom hed only known for a bout 3 months

[Alex]

05/05/05?

Damn, I forgot to pay my phone bill...

[Dis]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
Ya know i wonder why texas has this big celebration for cinco de mayo if we fought them for our indepence too.. mexico that is.

I was curious about a few things too. So I looked it up on Wikipedia. I always wondered why it's also a holiday they are thankful for american intervention when a scant 14 to 15 years ealier we fought a war with them (and took large areas of land from them). And accoriding to wikipedia, most american help didn't arrive until after the american civil war which was years after the battle of cinco de mayo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo

According to them it was basically popularized by some college kids. As it's not really that big in Mexico except in the state of puebla.

So all it really comes down to is an excuse to drink and party.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Now everyone point and laugh at Tubes for being a superstitious nitwit.

I'm not superstitious my mother is.

My Ouija board told me you were a jerk, but I didn't believe it.........

ACK!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
A scholar recently declared that, based on more accurate translations, the number of the devil in the Bible is actually 616, not 666.

Of course, he also pointed out that the number is a code for the Roman Emperor, not actually Satan, despite modern Christian superstition about it.

I believe they used new technology to be able to read a previously unreadable greek language Bible found in an ancient Egyptian dump. It was supposedly one of the oldest versions of the Bible ever found or one of the oldest versions of the New Testiment any way.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by Dissident
today is the day we celebrate yet another French defeat.

You mean "we"

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[Master Zen]

Originally posted by Dissident
As it's not really that big in Mexico except in the state of puebla.

Umm wrong, it's a federal holiday, the second most important of the year (after independence), and its not just "big" in Puebla but pretty much everywhere else. Every year there's a military parade in the city, the President goes, gives a speech about union and sovereignty and other assorted bull**** which no-one believes, and that's about it. I should know: I live in Puebla and was at the parade today.

The true phenomenon is why it is celebrated over independence day among the Mexican-American community. I have no answer to that.