Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Cinco de Mayo

TODAY IS CINCO DE MAYO
In honor of Mexican Independence Day, we bring you the following bit of
little-known history. 
In 1912, the Hellman’s Mayonnaise Company was shipping 12,000 jars of its
product from England to Vera Cruz, Mexico. The first leg of the journey was
in the cargo hold of the Titanic. 
Obviously, the shipment never made it. The Mexican people were devastated
by the loss—so much so that they declared a national day of mourning, which
is still observed today. It is known, of course, as *Sinko de Mayo*. 
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As we say here: Ba-dum-bum.
(Seba, maybe you'll explain the pun for those whom it eludes.)
PS: CAESAR SALAD WAS INVENTED IN MEXICO.
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 (Seba, maybe you'll explain the pun for those whom it eludes.)
It has to do with the word "to sink", that is "affondare", right?
Bye, FB

It has to do with the word "to sink", that is "affondare", right?
Yes, and Mayo means Mayonnaise. :D
If you don't know a Spanish word, just add -o. ^_^
El shop-o around the corner-o! :D
In Will & Grace Karen talks to her maid Rosario with a sort of
Spanglish. Like "No, Rosario por favor, honey, listen to me for a
second, ok? Take Olivia and Mason to la store de los toys."
IIRC in Spanish it would be "tienda de jugetes".
^_^
Sebastiano

 
Esatto, e anche "mayo" che e' un troncmento di "mayonnaise." :)
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 Yes, and Mayo means Mayonnaise. :D
Aha! Still funnier!
Bye, FB

 (with apologies to Reader's Digest)
Why one must feel obliged to apologise to Reader's Digest baffles the
mind. Shouldn't they be apologising to us, the readers. ;-)
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, Loki 
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[It's about time someone asked. TYVM]
Not that I *ever* read it, but RD used to have (and still may have) a 
series of articles relating to body parts, (organs, mostly,) named in the 
fashion of "I Am Joe's Liver," or "I am Joe's Spleen," "...Bladder," etc. 
in which *the actual organ spoke to you in the first person!* 
Fascinating. (Not.)
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little-known history. 
I'm going to be a total anorak here :) but Cinco De Mayo isn't
Mexico's indepence day 
http://www.calnative.com/stories/n_cinco.htm

indepence
independence

 first person!* Fascinating. (Not.)
Well, this got famous worldwide with Fight Club, the movie.
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Giovanni Bajo

 (which is my excuse for being slow on the uptake ;-ž)
Yes.
"Cinco de Mayo" = "5 Maggio" = "May, 5th" = Mexican Independence Day
"Sinko de Mayo" = spanglish for "sink of mayo" = pun about the Independence Day
and its history
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Giovanni Bajo

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Um. It was a total farce.
But what do you mean by "anorak"? I never heard it mean anything other than
a winter coat.
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 a winter coat.
Si vede che non sei un gatoo di discendenza britannica :-)
QUOTE
anorak (PERSON)
noun [C] UK DISAPPROVING
a boring person who is too interested in the unimportant details of a hobby
and finds it difficult to meet and spend time with other people:
There are enough facts and figures in this book to keep even the most
obsessive anorak fascinated for hours.
UNQUOTE
Source: 
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=92411&dict=CALD
...ma perché jonny ha insultato se stesso č un altro mistero. E poi, la sua
precisazione era un detaglio molto utile, senza cui tu avresti continuato a
vivere credendo che il 5 maggio fosse il  giorno della festa
dell'indipendenza messicana, e questo sarebbo stata una vita miserabile,
anche per un gatto :-)
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Xakero

 anche per un gatto :-)
Grazie per quella definizione di anorak. Non l'ho mai sentita negli USA.
I guess I should have prefaced that post with "From 'Uncle John's Bathroom
Reader' daily calendar",  which would have put it into the proper
perspective. It's full of "factoids", many of which I take with a grain of
salt, but many of them are at least amusing.
Sono d'accordo: always better to know the facts (and the source.) What a
miserable life it might have been for me, povero gattuccio.
(But actually, I thought Cinco de Mayo was "the Day of the Dead," so what
do I know? :)
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a winter coat.
Train spotters are considered to a be *geeks* and they wear anoraks
hence the word.

Source: 
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=92411&dict=CALD
Penso questo č un meglio *explination* (non lo so come dire il parola
in italiano)
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/anorak

I know, this is what a meant by me being an anorak (a geek) you were
You can check if you're a real geek here:
http://www.innergeek.us/
:-)
'bye


http://www.innergeek.us/
10.25641% - Geekish Tendencies
Risky.
Sebastiano

 
Grazie per la "spiegazione" (o "chiarimento".) Ora so che pure io sono un 
anorak.
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 Fascinating. (Not.)
See what I mean about slow on the uptake? I only just got it 2
seconds before I read your post. :-))))
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A pun maybe, not so sure about the humour though ....
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But you *got* it and that's all that matters! 8)
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 I am Joey's Cat
I thought that was Joey, who was last seen testing Gallileo's
theories about acceleration.
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Uh, yes, um, he and I were soul-mates.
;-)
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