# Cinco de Mayo in the USA & Elsewhere

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinco-de-mayo-in-the-usa-elsewhere/355520>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 5, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinco-de-mayo-in-the-usa-elsewhere/355520 "2006-05-05T12:24:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinco-de-mayo-in-the-usa-elsewhere/355520/21 "2006-05-07T20:40:05Z")

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> [@Civil Guy](#):
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> …And how many countries have a fourth of July?

All those that use a Gregorian calendar, of course. 😃

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**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cinco-de-mayo-in-the-usa-elsewhere/355520/22 "2006-05-07T21:31:09Z")

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> [@Slithy Tove](#):
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> Except that there can be no equivalent agony, Mexican or otherwise, of nursing a hang-over the next day with the memory of 100 bagpipes playing _Brian Boru’s March_ stuck in your head.

Cheap tequila and [mariachi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariachi) music can kick green beer and bagpipes’ asses any day of the year, IME (hangover-wise, that is).

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