Cinco de Mayo

[mcmbenjamin]

Happy Cinco de Mayo, A drinking holiday.

Also normally a day used to celebrate the end of the Spring semester.

So have a pint or ten.

[preiffer]

Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
Happy Cinco de Mayo, A drinking holiday.

So have a pint or ten.

We have similar celebration days over here. They're called "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday" and "Saturday".

Although there is one particular group of people that have started a movement for a new drinking holiday in the UK - "Sunday", but it's not as widely observed as the others...

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
Happy Cinco de Mayo, A drinking holiday.

Also normally a day used to celebrate the end of the Spring semester.

So have a pint or ten.

Tell me about it,work is a...mess [:$]

Originally posted by preiffer

Although there is one particular group of people that have started a movement for a new drinking holiday in the UK - "Sunday", but it's not as widely observed as the others...

Yeah, it's already a drinking holiday in Scotland.

Sorry to hear bout your headache Dave - hope it improves!!!

[mcmbenjamin]

Well Cinco de Mayo does offer some historic interest.

The day celebrates the Mexicans defeating the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.

Also Tony Blair was re-elected a year ago today.

It is International No Pants Day

The Depression started in the USA in 1893 with the crash of the NY Stock market, mainly do to excessive margin lending and other problems

Also (and maybe the most important) Italy occupied Ethiopia which just may have started certian political upraisings.

So celebrate this day. If you need a further reason, I made the Dean's list yet again and maybe all A's.

Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
The Depression started in the USA in 1893 with the crash of the NY Stock market, mainly do to excessive margin lending and other problems

Last time I checked the depression started on October 29, 1929. Although I guess if you drink too much on Cinco de Mayo that could look like May 5, 1893.

[preiffer]

Originally posted by VS-EWR

Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
The Depression started in the USA in 1893 with the crash of the NY Stock market, mainly do to excessive margin lending and other problems

Last time I checked the depression started on October 29, 1929. Although I guess if you drink too much on Cinco de Mayo that could look like May 5, 1893.

Nope - there was more than one depression. It IS possible for two people to be right without the need for argument

THIS one did start in 1893.


Besides - what are you doing in this thread? You're not old enough to drink [}:)]

""International no pants day"[:o)][:o)]

[mcmbenjamin]

Originally posted by VS-EWR

Originally posted by mcmbenjamin
The Depression started in the USA in 1893 with the crash of the NY Stock market, mainly do to excessive margin lending and other problems

Last time I checked the depression started on October 29, 1929. Although I guess if you drink too much on Cinco de Mayo that could look like May 5, 1893.

Thats what I thought before I have the upmost joy of taking three fun filled American History classes.

The what you are refering to the the Great Depression which started on Black Thursday on October 24, 1929.

The depression in 1893 is normally referred to in history books as the Panic of 1893. Many banks closed, US Money (banknotes) could no longer be traded for gold and four major railroads went belly up. Banks over lent money. Banks called loans as the value of assets (silver and gold) securing the loans declined quickly. Tons of people became unemployed. This led to the whole Coxey's Army thing.

Certianly the Great Depression is better know and more trend in textbooks. Also grandparents can tell stories about it as it is more recent.

[Decker]

Buddy can you spare a dime?

[ChuckC]

Congrats, Ben, on the deans list achievement.

Chuck-

Ah yes, gotta love those panics. Ditto about the boring history, I just had an AP US History test yesterday. Boy, that was fun.

[mcmbenjamin]

Originally posted by VS-EWR
Ah yes, gotta love those panics. Ditto about the boring history, I just had an AP US History test yesterday. Boy, that was fun.

Hope you did well and hope your school district paid for the test. Sad thing is that some schools do not issue credit for AP classes. I go the royal **** over on that deal.

Wish you the best in your studies. What do you want to major in?

Thanks for the luck, I took my SATs today as well.

Nope, despite the richness of my town it is too cheap to pay for our AP tests, so I had to pay $80 each for the history and the english tests. Stupid College Board and their monopoly.

Well, I won't graduate for another year, but I'm probably going to major in Mathmatics and, if it's offered, minor in Aerospace Engineering.