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Toast

A toast to all your fine ambition, about which we all rant;

Because it makes you do the things that everyone says you can't.

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Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK ; Schwartz, Bert B

Keyword(s): Ability ; AMBITION ; DRINKING ; Social ; TOAST

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Here's to the girls who say they will

Here's to the girls who say they won't

But to hell with the girls who say they will

and later you find out they don't.

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Where learned: ILLINOIS ; Turner, Herve

Keyword(s): DATING ; DRINKING ; Girls ; Innuendo ; Social ; TOAST

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Here's to the ones who say they will,

Here's to the ones who say they won't

And here's to the ones who say they will but

When you get them alone they don't.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Lunz, Edward

Keyword(s): Boys ; DATING ; DRINKING ; Girls ; Innuendo ; Social ; TOAST

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Here's to the world as round as a wheel

That all must feel,

If this life were a thing that you could buy,

The Jews would all live while the Irish would die.

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Where learned: HOME ; Carson, Lawrence

Keyword(s): Buy ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; Irish ; Jewish ; LIFE ; MONEY ; Purchase ; Social ; Stereotype ; TOAST ; Wheel

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Verse With Drink:

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,

If you drink good booze, Your pipes won't rust.

Submitter comment:

I heard this as a toast before drinking.

Data entry tech comment:

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James Callow comment:

Original Title read [Verse Without Music]. Crossed out and replaced with current title.

Original BN [C700; N400; C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.

Keyword(s): Booze ; DRINKING ; Pipes ; Rust ; Social ; TOAST

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Down the hatch/ Past the tongue./ Watch out belly/ Here it comes!

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Provencal, Judy

Keyword(s): ANATOMY ; BELLY ; DRINKING ; Social ; TOAST ; TONGUE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

Here's to you and here's to me / May we never disagree / But if we do (to Hell with you!) / And here's to me.

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James Callow comment:

Original BN [C702] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Where learned: Gibbons, Mary Clare

Keyword(s): DRINKING ; HELL ; Social ; TOAST

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Toast

May I never be above you / May I never be beneath you / May I always be on the level with you.

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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Falloon, Frederick ; 4960 Cecil

Keyword(s): Above ; Beneath ; DRINKING ; Level ; Relation ; Social ; TOAST

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
SPEECH -- Formula

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Proverb

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; TRUTH ; VERSE

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb

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Ethnic: Polish

A POLISH, CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER CALLS FOR EACH SERVING TO BE
SERVED SEPARATELY. THE NEXT SERVING IS NOT BROUGHT ON UNTIL THE
PREVIOUS ONE HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY ALL THAT WANT IT. GENERALLY,
THE SERVINGS ARE OF VEGETABLES. THERE IS NO MEAT EATEN. NOTHING
IS DRANK DURING THE MEAL.

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Updated 02-23-2011 / TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): ABSTINENCE ; CHRISTMAS ; Course ; CUSTOM ; Dinner ; DRINK ; ETHNIC ; Feast ; FOOD ; holiday ; meat ; POLISH ; Serve ; tradition

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve Christmas

Date learned: 11-00-1968

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Proverb

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

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Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Hickey, Thelma

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; Mouth ; PROVERB ; SLIP ; TRUTH ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Submitter comment:

I heard this in my home as a child in Ferndale, MI

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; DRINK ; HORSE ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; WATER

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

Many a slip, twixt the cup and the lip.

Submitter comment:

This proverb means that anything can happen from the time you start something until you finish it.

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Where learned: Black, Freddie

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; VERSE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.

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Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Plate, John

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; DRINK ; Free-will ; HORSE ; Instruct ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; VERSE ; WATER

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Entertainment: Song

Rugby Party Song:

(Group Sings)

We are off to see the Wild West Show, the elephant and the kangaroo, big baboons and cheetahs, nothing could be neeter, we're off to see the Wild West Show.

(Persons balance a glass of beer on his head and gets floor)

"And in this cage we have the _______!"

(All)

"The _______! Incredible, Fantastic! No Shit! What the fuck is an _______?"

(Person removes glass of beer from his head and says)

"The ______ is a very strange animal. It _______."

(Chorus is repeated ehre and the song begins again.

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Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): ALCOHOL ; Crude ; DRINK ; Lewd ; Rugby ; SONG ; Sport ; Swear ; West ; Zoo

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse C730.334
CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Initiation rite Hazing
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Wedding Custom

It is a custom for the bride and groom to entwine arms and share a cup of wine at the wedding reception.

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Keyword(s): Arm ; Arms ; Bride ; CEREMONY ; Cup ; CUSTOM ; DRINK ; Entwine ; GLASS ; Groom ; Reception ; WEDDING ; Wine

Subject headings: CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage

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Food: Recipe

Beef Tea:

1 lb lean beef, cut into small pieces. Put into a glass canning jar, without a drop of water, cover tightly and set in a pot of cold water. Heat gradually to a boil and continue this streadily for three hours, until the meat is like white rags and the juice drawn out. Season with salt to tast and, when cold, skim.

Submitter comment:

My mother used to fix this for me as a child when I was sick and couldn't keep anything in my stomach.

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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Terry, Jane Greenwood

Keyword(s): Beef ; Beverage ; Boil ; Boil ; Broth ; Canning ; DRINK ; FOOD ; Liquid ; Simmer ; Skim ; TEA

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Mixed preparation in liquid

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Food: Recipe

Tamarind Water:

Pat tamarinds into a pitcher or tumbler till it is 1/3 full. Then fill up with cold water, cover it, and let it infuse for quarter of an hour or more. Currant jelly or cranberry juice mixed with water makes a pleasant drink for an invalid.

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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Dillon, Martha Joslin

Keyword(s): Cranberry ; Currant ; DRINK ; Invalid ; Jelly ; RECIPE ; Tamarind

Subject headings: Food Drink -- Water

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Toast

Drink:

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

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [N400, C855] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Bad ; DRINK ; Good ; GREETING ; Me ; TOAST ; You

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Toast

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

But as good as you are
And as bad as I am,


I'm as good as you are
as bad as I am

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Motifs Added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Moseley, Barbara

Keyword(s): Bad ; DRINK ; Good ; GREETING ; INSULT ; Me ; TOAST ; You

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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