To: nihil who wrote (6894 ) 1/2/2001 12:21:27 PM From: 2MAR$ Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13018 The AA folks are going to give me the look , but never a hard drink passes my lips , but if ever I was going to fall from grace and be Merry , it would be to drink with a gal named Sherry! ;-) more Toasts from the halls of alcohol:zinnia.umfacad.maine.edu May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms. If you must steal, steal kisses. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends. Let's drink to California, way out by the sea, Where a woman's ass, and a whiskey glass, Made a horse's ass of me. . What is Irish diplomacy ? It’s the ability to tell a man to go to hell, So that he will look forward to making the trip. Mother's in the kitchen washing out the jugs, Sister's in the pantry bottling the suds, Father's in the cellar mixin' up the hops, Johnny's on the front porch watchin' for the cops. --Prohibition song A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote. --William Butler Yeats The problem with some people is that when they aren’t drunk they're sober. --William Butler Yeats Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. (The AA people will hate me for this....) A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold beer—and another one! --Old Irish toast There are several good reasons for drinking and one has just entered my head. If a man can't drink when he's living, then how the hell can he drink when he's dead ~the Irish Here's to the bull that roams the woods. That does the cows and heifers good. If it were not for his long long rod. There would be no beef by God! Sing as if no one were listening, And live every day as if it were your last. --Submitted by Lori Eakins When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let’s all get drunk, and go to heaven! --Old Irish toast On the chest of a barmaid in Sale Were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind, For the sake of the blind, Was the same information in Braille! . An Irishman is never drunk as long as He can hold onto one blade of grass and not Fall off the face of the earth. --Old Irish toast May the devil make a ladder of your backbone While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell. --Old Irish toast But if at church they give some ale And a pleasant fire for our souls to regale We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day Nor ever once from the church to stray. Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. --Irish Proverb