BS: Drinking toasts

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Edmond
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 10:32 AM

The loyal toast in Red Rose County is "The Queen, Duke of Lancaster".

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 07:54 AM

My old headmaster used to insist that whenever a toast to the Queen (quaint old UK custom) was announced while everyone else might say "the Queen" he would say "the Duke of Lancaster" - as the reigning monarch is the said duke. He was of course from the red rose corner of England.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:31 PM

na zdravi (to health)

kan pai (emty glass)

to our parents children

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,Rob
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 02:52 PM

Here's to honor.
Get honor.
Stay honor.
If ya can't come in her, come honor.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Schantieman
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 12:26 PM

From Covey Crump's collection of naval slang and miscellanea:

TRADITIONAL WARDROOM EVENING TOASTS

The following are quoted by Commander Beckett as the routine toasts drunk after dinner in wardrooms in Nelson's time:

Sunday ............... Absent friends.
Monday ............... Our ships at sea.
Tuesday .............. Our men.
Wednesday ............ Ourselves
...(as no one else is likely to concern themselves with our welfare).
Thursday ............. A bloody war or a sickly season.
Friday ............... A willing foe and sea room.
Saturday ............. Sweethearts and wives.

Of these, only Saturday's is regularly heard nowadays, probably because mess dinners are usually held on Saturday nights. It usually has the sotto voce addendum, "may they never meet".

The point of Thursday's was that these were the circumstances likely to lead to rapid promotion!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 10:01 PM

May ALL your troubles be little Ones , with BIG Boobs and grinning from Hip to Hip !

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:48 PM

I use this toast-

I drink to your health in the taverns,
I drink to your health in my home
I drink to your health so damn many times
I've almost ruined my own!

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:25 PM

Go mbéirimid beo ar an am seo arís - May we still grip on to life this time next year.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 03:56 PM

Here's to Mag
the dirty old hag
the scurvy slimy bitch
Her hair is like wire
her teeth are like brass
and maggots crawl out of her ass
Rather than scale those slimy sides
and suck those grisly tits
I'd rather drink a quart of buzzard puke
and die of the drizzlin' shits

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,Samantha
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 03:35 PM

"Heres to being single, seeing double, and sleeping triple"

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 01:39 AM

Who bothers with toasts? Usually it's just chuck it down the neck and get on with the grub.

I quite often raise a glass in a silent toast, usually to absent friends, recently departed or to an alternative deity whose help would be appreciated as it appears the major ones are out to lunch.

If I have to provide a formal toast, it's usually 'Absent Friends' or the particular individual for whom the dinner is given. If the person is deceased, then it's a glass of something special, left untouched on the table. Says much more than any words can.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:43 PM

May you live as long as you want to...
.......................................and want to as long as you live.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,cordelia
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 03:23 AM

heres to the women we love the best
we love them better when theyre undressed
if they had wings we'd fuck em flying
if they had cancer we'd fuck em dying
and if from that cancer they should die
we'd dig up their graves
and fuck em where they lie




there once was a man from china
who wasnt a very good climber
he slipped on a rock
and broke his cock
and now he has a vagina

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 29 May 07 - 05:24 AM

An old Irish toast of my father's:

Sláinte chuig na fír is go máire na mna go deo!
Health to the men and may the women live for ever!

And another fave of mine, cos it rymes in both languages:

Sláinte is Táinte!
Health and Wealth!

Dáithí

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 May 07 - 09:23 PM

Here's to the whole world, lest some damn fool take offense.

Time, gentlemen, time!
Time, gentlemen, time!
Raise your glass to the pleasures that pass.
Time, gentlemen, time!

To absent friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 28 May 07 - 09:01 PM

First line should have read:
"Here's to it and at it and at it and to it"

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 28 May 07 - 08:57 PM

Here's to it and at it,
And to it and at it again.
If you don't do it when you get to it
You'll never get at it to do it again!

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 May 07 - 02:30 PM

Drinking toasts? Where I come from we eat our toasts and drink our coffees.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 28 May 07 - 01:30 PM

Drink to the lass!
Let the toast pass
I warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass!

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: The Walrus
Date: 28 May 07 - 05:44 AM

"Here's to our enemies -
May the Lord turn their hearts to love us,
And if He can't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping"


(To be drunk only with an alcoholic drink in one's hand*)
"Here's to a Temperence supper
With water in glasses tall
And coffee and tea to finish...
And us nowhere near it at all!"


"To your health and mine, in water or wine
I'll wish you the best....Ah, you know the rest"


Walrus


*So American Budweiser is automatically excluded :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Rowan
Date: 27 May 07 - 10:16 PM

Well, it was a rather famous military toast, often used at reunions.

And there's

Here's to you, as good as you are
and here's to me, as bad as I am.
And as good as you are,
and as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are as bad as I am.

Perhaps a nice Mudelf could prefix the thread with "Folklore" and relocate it above the line.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 27 May 07 - 09:14 PM

Jeesh - you sound like a real fun guy to drink with!

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Joe_F
Date: 27 May 07 - 08:58 PM

Then stand to your glasses steady!
This world is a world of lies.
Here's a sip to the dead already,
And a cup to the next that dies.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27 May 07 - 10:52 AM

When I was young and vulgar (now I'm old and vulgar), a popular toast was "Here's to the kisses I have snatched. And vice versa."

G.K. Chersterton wrote:
"Here's to the absent lords. May they
Long in a foreign country stay
Drinking at other ladies' boards
The health of other absent lords."

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: mack/misophist
Date: 27 May 07 - 10:17 AM

Being a terse sort I use either 'Nazdrovya' or 'prosit'.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 26 May 07 - 10:36 PM

Posted before in another thread...most appropriate at "shotgun weddings."

Here is to Eve
The mother of our race
Who held a fig leaf
In its proper place.

Here is to Adam
The father of us all
Who was 'Johnny on the Spot'
When that fig leaf began to fall.

Sincerely
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 26 May 07 - 10:28 PM

Many fine toasts here. Now a question for yous: where you live, do people (apart from folkies) regularly or even occasionally make toasts when they drink INformally, or is it quite rare to hear a toast on an informal occasion? (Just curious).

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Joe_F
Date: 26 May 07 - 09:48 PM

Here's to the girl who is mine, all mine.
She drinks, and she bets,
And she smokes cigarettes,
And sometimes, I am told, she goes out and forgets
That she's mine, all mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 May 07 - 12:46 PM

Splott Man, I long ago learned a longer version of that toast:

Here's to the breezes that blow through the treeses
They blow the girls' skirtses above the girls' kneeses
The college man seeses and does what he pleases
And spreads the diseases...Oh Jeeziz, oh Jeeziz!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Scorpio
Date: 26 May 07 - 12:20 PM

May you be in heaven an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

There's many a good reason for drinking,
And one has just entered my head.
If a fellow can't drink when he's living,
How the hell can he drink when he's dead?

Past the teeth, round the gums,
Look out stomach, here it comes.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 25 May 07 - 05:44 PM

Drinkin's o'ver thinkin'
I'll drink the ocean dry
If I live to a hundred
I'll drink 'till I die

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 May 07 - 08:55 AM

We usually raise our glasses in silence, remembering friends and family from long ago.

If something IS said it usually along the lines of "To us. We're all that's left, and all that we started with."

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Gurney
Date: 25 May 07 - 04:31 AM

Here's tae us, and them like us.
Damn few, and they're all deid!


I usually say "Wassail." Old English for 'Be of good cheer.'

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Splott Man
Date: 25 May 07 - 04:02 AM

Here's to the breezes
That blow through the treeses
And lift girls' chemises above their kneeses
B'Jeeziz.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: skipy
Date: 25 May 07 - 03:55 AM

Surley drinking toast is very difficult even with lashings of butter on it!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Joe_F
Date: 24 May 07 - 09:23 PM

Here's to the girl I love.
I wish that she were nigh.
If drinking beer would bring her here,
I'd drink the damn place dry.

Better a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Oh here's to other meetings,
And merry greetings then,
And here's to those we've drunk with,
But never can again.

No bar too far to drink to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Micca
Date: 24 May 07 - 08:52 PM

Heres to the happiest days of my life
spent in the arms of another mans wife



my Mother

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: The Walrus
Date: 24 May 07 - 08:41 PM

There's the old cavalry toast:

"Here's to Horses and Women - And to the men that ride 'em"

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Pseudolus
Date: 24 May 07 - 02:22 PM

The Farewell Toast - Probably best if sung ala Mike Cross on his CD "The Best of the Funny stuff"

Here's to the wine we love to drink and the food we love to eat
Here's to our wives and sweethearts, and may they never meet
Here's champagne for our real friends and real pain for our sham friends
And when this journey finally ends may all of us fine peace.

Here's to the women that I've loved and all the ones I've kissed
As for regrets I have just one, that's all the ones I missed
Yes women's faults are many, we men have only two,
Every single thing we say and every thing we do

I wish you health I wish you wealth and happiness galore
I wish ya heaven when ya die, what could I wish ya more
May your joys be as deep as the oceans, your troubles as light as it's foam
And may you find sweet peace of mind wherever you may roam

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Bainbo
Date: 24 May 07 - 02:15 PM

To wives and girlfriends. May they never meet.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 07 - 02:04 PM

Here's to you. And, here's to me. And, if, by chance, we disagree... fuck you, here's to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: jeffp
Date: 24 May 07 - 02:02 PM

Here's to the girl up over the hill.
She won't do it but her sister will.
Here's to her sister!

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: MMario
Date: 24 May 07 - 01:32 PM

Here's to the game they call ten toes
it's played all over town
Some they play with ten toes up
The others ten toes down!

Subject: RE: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 24 May 07 - 01:30 PM

Iechyd da.

Subject: BS: Drinking toasts
From: Arnie
Date: 24 May 07 - 01:24 PM

Whenever I visit my brothers in the wilds of West Yorkshire, we usually end up in a pub and after a few pints the old toast comes out (no, not the hot bread variety)so I thought I'd share it with you, said of course with a pint in hand;-

"Many my friends tha's made me foes, and tha's made me pop me clothes
But now that tha's so near me nose, up tha comes and down tha goes!"

Anyone know any other original toasts, apart from Cheers! Bottoms up! and Salud! that is.....