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Toast
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you have died.
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Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): DEATH ; DEVIL ; ETHNIC ; HEAVEN ; Irish ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
An Irish Toast:
May you be in heaven half an hour before the Devil knows your dead.
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DEATH ; DEVIL ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; HEAVEN ; HELL ; Irish ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
May all your children be born bald and naked.
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There were two identical cards for this submission: The only difference is that one listed an informant and the other did not. I included the informant in the submission and combined the cards to avoid duplicate entries.
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Keyword(s): Bald ; CHILDREN ; DRINKING ; Naked ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
may your children have rich parents.
Submitter comment:
She heard this from a Polish disk jockey who was from Chicago.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): CHILDREN ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; fortune ; PARENTS ; POLISH ; Riches ; Social ; TOAST ; WEALTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
May you live till you die.
Submitter comment:
Heard it from a Polish disk jockey who was from Chicago.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DEATH ; Die ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; Live ; POLISH ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Don't sleep, but rather drink.
Submitter comment:
Heard it from a Polish disk jockey from Chicago.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DRINK ; ETHNIC ; POLISH ; SLEEP ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Sahthine is Lebanese for "God grant you good health." This expression is often used as a toasting phrase.
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Keyword(s): ETHNIC ; HEALTH ; Lebanese ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
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Gaelic Blassing:
May the road rise to meet you, and the wind be always at your back, and may the Lord hold you in the hollow of his hand.
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James Callow comment:
Listed as a toast by other collectors
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Back ; BLESSING ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; Gaelic ; Irish ; Lord ; Road ; Social ; TOAST ; Wind
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
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Toast - Viennese:
Prost, dos die Gurgel nicht verust
"Drink so your throat doesn't rust."
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James Callow comment:
An exclamation point and a question mark are written under neath the submission.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; Rust ; Social ; Throat ; TOAST ; Viennese
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
To your health
Submitter comment:
From Childhood
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James Callow comment:
A large, boxed in exclamation point is written on the submission card.
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; HEALTH ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Toast for Long Life (Scottish):
Lang may yera lum veek.
"long may your chimney smoke"
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James Callow comment:
Original Bn [F600] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Chimney ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; SCOTTISH ; Smoke ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to you, and here's to me; if we should ever disagree, the hell with you.
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Keyword(s): Disagree ; DRINKING ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Polish Toast:
"Naszdrovye" is a traditional Polish toast comparable to "to your health!"
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [F533] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; HEALTH ; POLISH ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Indian Toast:
"Aap ki bhalai ke liye!"
For your happiness and prosperity.
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Keyword(s): DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; INDIAN ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's mud in yer eye!
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Keyword(s): DRINKING ; Eye ; MUD ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to our dates and our favorite girls...Let's hope they don't meet tonight!
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Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): Dates ; DATING ; DRINKING ; Girls ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Here's to our friends and our drinks...We'll carry our friends as long as we can hold our drinks.
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Where learned: BUFFALO ; NEW YORK
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; FRIENDS ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Polish Toast:
Phul Bogan
Translated: Drink with God!
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Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; God ; POLISH ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
Good health to you, and then to me, and then to the cow in the ditch.
Submitter comment:
This toast rhymes when it is said in Polish
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Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Cow ; Ditch ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; HEALTH ; POLISH ; Social ; TOAST
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Toast
The Art of Toasting:
Toasting "healths" began hundreds of years BC when warriors offered drinks to Pagan Gods. Greeks drank at banquets to every God on Olympus. RomNS dded a pledge to Caesar - with a cup to each letter in his name. Norsemen drank to Thor, and Oden, plus cups to love, memories, absent friends. Merrymakers drank to each other's health. Pledging in these cutthroat days was very real. A man was especially vulnerable while drinking. When kinsman "pledged health," they swore to defend each other. Rowdy songs and chug-a-lugging begame part of health drinking as well as toasts to the ladies, wealth and success.
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James Callow comment:
Not ONE example.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Caesar ; DRINKING ; Greek ; HISTORY ; Kinship ; Kinsman ; Norse ; Oden ; Pagan ; Protect ; Romans ; Social ; SUCCESS ; Thor ; TOAST ; Viking ; Warriors ; WEALTH
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |