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    A daily toast

    I thought we might nick an idea from another forum I occasionally log on to. They have a daily toast, where members can post any excuse for raising a glass or having a full blown party.

    Reasons ranged from Ellen MacArthur for a new world record, to someone having a baby, to Party planner Cynthia Payne being acquitted of nine charges of controlling prostitutes at her home in south west London (11 Feb 1987)


    It has grown into quite a long thread and it's not a daily post, but always worth a laugh.

    May I start

    FIRST MAN IN SPACE:
    April 12, 1961


    On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. Vostok 1 orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 187 miles and was guided entirely by an automatic control system. The only statement attributed to Gagarin during his one hour and 48 minutes in space was, "Flight is proceeding normally; I am well."

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    Re: A daily toast

    So, is our daily toast like our daily bread??

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    Re: A daily toast

    Quote Originally Posted by Ceroc Jock
    So, is our daily toast like our daily bread??
    No. It's crunchier....

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    Re: A daily toast

    and has nutella on it
    "If you rebel against high heels, take care to do so in a very smart hat.'' George Bernard Shaw

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    Re: A daily toast

    Oops. Sorry.

    Forgive my trespassing...

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    Speaking as an expert on Toast

    Ha! My dream thread

    The best toast I ever heard was:

    "Here's champagne to our real friends,
    And real pain to our sham friends..."

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    Re: A daily toast

    Quote Originally Posted by Tiggerbabe
    and has nutella on it
    Aaaaaah, toast with nutella - the food of gods! You're a tiggerbabe after my own heart!!

    Anyway....... Do you have to have a reason to have a toast, or a wee party? Or indeed a big one? Isn't "Let's have a party, it's Tuesday!" good enough? Or - woohoooo it ain't raining! Let's party! Or......... I'm alive, let's celebrate with a drink or ten!!!

    Little Monkey - live each day as if it's your last

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    Re: Speaking as an expert on Toast

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M
    Ha! My dream thread

    The best toast I ever heard was:

    "Here's champagne to our real friends,
    And real pain to our sham friends..."
    I still like the old "To absent friends - and those who *should* be absent."

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    Re: A daily toast

    I like the toast used in the Royal Navy - "to wives and sweethearts - may they never meet!"

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    Re: A daily toast

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart
    I like the toast used in the Royal Navy - "to wives and sweethearts - may they never meet!"
    (I think each day has a toast)

    Monday - "Our ships at sea"
    Tuesday - "Our Men"
    Wednesday - "Ourselves ( as no one is likely to concern themselves with our welfare)"
    Thursday - " A Bloody War or a sickly season"
    Friday - " A Willing Foes and sea room"
    Saturday - Sweethearts and wives - may they never meet"
    Sunday - " Absent friends"

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    Re: A daily toast

    In Norway (oh, and in Sweden and Denmark), we say "Skål" when we toast. Some people insist this comes from the viking age, when the blood-thirsty beastly vikings would chop their enimies heads off, and use the sculls as drinking bowls, ie "scull".

    Personally, I think this is a load of tosh... We were a friendly and gentle - yet misunderstood - peole , and we much preferred ripping the horns of cattle to drink out of, 'cus they had a much nicer shape..... Or something....

    Aaaaanyway. We do have a lovely drinking song. It's deep, meaningful and....It goes like this:

    Å så svinger vi på seidelen igjen,
    HEI SKÃ…L!!

    Å så ramler vi på fyllefest igjen,
    HEI SKÃ…L!!

    Å så havner vi I fylle-arrest igjen,
    HEI SKÃ…L!!

    Roughly translated - Oh, then we swing our tankards again..... Oh, then we end up having a drunken party again..... Oh, then we end up in the nick again...

    I guess you can work out the "HEI SKÃ…L!!" bit for yourselves...

    LM

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    Re: A daily toast

    "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." Proverbs 31: 6-7

    I could almost become religious........

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    Re: A daily toast

    I'm alive and well
    My body works nearly as well as yesterday
    I have food and a place too sleep
    My friends who care are all around me
    I have enough love too spare for those who need it
    And I have told those who matter that I care.

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    Re: A daily toast

    After 5 years of dancing MJ (5 good years too)
    It has finally happened. I've just danced some DT Yes Yes there are lots of you out there saying so what. Well I just wanted to say thats all. It was pretty good fun too

    Emma P had to do a pretty quick reshuffle as there about 3 million women over at Northampton and I ended up hanging on to two of the slippery little tykes as Emma dumped her prepared class and 'winged' a double trouble routine and basically I just wanted to say more power to Emmas elbow. Not many teachers would have had the wherewithall to do that and she turned a probable lesson from hell into a pretty good adhoc fun class.



    So in the spirit of the thread A Toast to Emma Pettit for being Emma Pettit.

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    Re: A daily toast

    A toast to James A. Lovell,

    Who on April 13 1970

    Made the underestimate of the year


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    Re: A daily toast

    April 13 1997 Tiger Woods wins Masters at the tender age of 21

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    Re: A daily toast

    Who was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell in Albemarle County, Virginia and became the Third president of the USA ?

    It must be a while since he has had a toast

    A toast on his 262nd birthday

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    Re: A daily toast

    Quote Originally Posted by Trousers
    After 5 years of dancing MJ (5 good years too)
    It has finally happened. I've just danced some DT Yes Yes there are lots of you out there saying so what. Well I just wanted to say thats all. It was pretty good fun too

    Emma P had to do a pretty quick reshuffle as there about 3 million women over at Northampton and I ended up hanging on to two of the slippery little tykes as Emma dumped her prepared class and 'winged' a double trouble routine and basically I just wanted to say more power to Emmas elbow. Not many teachers would have had the wherewithall to do that and she turned a probable lesson from hell into a pretty good adhoc fun class.



    So in the spirit of the thread A Toast to Emma Pettit for being Emma Pettit.
    I was there too, even though she pinched my dance partner to demo at the last minute so we didn't get any practise in AGAIN. She is the best. Can't wait till saturday to celebrate her 10th year as a teacher. Will be a fab night at Daventry with loads of great people.

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    Re: A daily toast

    not sure abot this one

    on April 16 1943 - The Swiss chemist Dr Albert Hofmann, who created d-lysergic acid diethylamide reports seeing "an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscope-like play of colors."

    cheers mate

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    Re: A daily toast

    A toast to a Mr Seo Sang-Moon,69, of Seoul who, according to a story in the Independent this morning, has passed the theoretical part of his driving test at the 272nd attempt. He claims to be illiterate and to have used each examination to teach himself the rules of the road, as he was unable to read them in a manual. He now faces the practical part of the test

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