Cinco de Mayo

Having got through all that "may the fourth be with you" rubbish relatively unscathed, it still needed at least something to be posted on sin-ko de ma-zho today.  I wrote it that way because I've heard it elsewhere as chin-ko de ma-yo [as in yo, man] and in some other variations.

There was one youtube where a clearly Mexican woman said it the first way.  I also read that it's much bigger in the US than in Me-khi-ko itself - some US congress said it had to be observed apparently, the Mexicans said, 'Whatever.'

I also get this whole thing mixed up with those spheres they suspend and beat them and sweets fall out - is that the same festival?  I tried my level best to 'watch' some mariachi.  After all, I like tango, some salsa, Linda Ronstadt's and Edie Gorme's Spanish numbers, Tex-Mex food is ok, guacamole is bearable to a point, but the sight of those suits and sombreros on fat males ... well, I just couldn't, sorry.  

Aha, thought I, find a female mariachi band, boy, and see how that goes:

I got through about one minute of that trumpet.  Sigh.  Which leaves me with no choice but to run this: