Cinco de Mayo

Whenever we can remember, we try to provide the 'buttheads with some holiday history. Usually we do it to justify our observance of the holiday, but with Cinco de Mayo falling on a Saturday, and in that it is not even a holiday that our office officially observes, we still felt that some clarity was needed. Some often we go through life, not wondering why things are the way they are. We can no longer say that about Cinco de Mayo, as we offered this explanation in Issue 2337:

WEEKEND CELEBRATION
Cinco de Mayo - May 5th - is not an American holiday, nor is it Mexican Independence Day, which declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. It was on the morning of May 5, 1862 when 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City. The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez. The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left, but it took this battle to get the French to move on.

We are not great historians, and must admit that before we Googled the above, we are not sure why we celebrated the holiday, we just did. Maybe it's because we like Margaritas (though not blended - on the rocks, no salt please). Here's more from Frasier Smith: