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The season of holidays is nearly upon us - Thanksgiving (in US) Christmas and New Year"s Eve. All those gatherings and all those toasts!
Surely we here at AWAD must have some unique "toasts"
I'll start with Irish toasts:
"May those who love us, love us.
For those who don't love us; may God turn their hearts.
If He won't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles,
So we will know them by their limping."
And this one for all-male gatherings:
"Here's to us and our wives' husbands, not forgetting ourselves."
Or for the solitary drinker:
"Here's to me, and me wife's husband, not forgettin' meself."
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I could never toast myself...
Considering the object of the toast isn't supposed to drink it seems a self-defeating proposition.
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"I could never toast myself". Luckily I could never fit inside the toaster.
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Why on earth is it called a "toast"? Atomica seems less than certain: [Perhaps from TOAST1 (from the use of spiced toast to flavor drinks).]
What's the Big Book have to say?
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Is the Rocky Horror Show as big a deal in the States as it is in New Zealand? The writer (and Riffraff in the movie) was Richard O'Brien, a New Zealander. Any stage production always draws large audiences, often dressed up in drag or in whiteface and top and tails. The audience, en masse, usually gets up and does the Time Warp in the aisles. "Time Warp" seems to be one song that everyone knows, young or old. At one stage production I went to, a frail-looking woman who was well into her late eighties or early nineties got up and wiggled during the song, hanging on to the back of the seat in front of her for dear life. Some interesting arcana: In one of the national stage productions, the then-Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, was the narrator. There were lots of political references and to-ing and fro-ing between him and the audience for some strange reason. I just about suffocated from laughing. Plus the fact that the actor who played Frankenfurter was really as gay as they came, and camped it up much more than Tim Curry could ever have got away with in the movie. It was really outrageous and the audience lapped it up. Lots of rice thrown. No toast, though. One of the best renditions of "Time Warp" I've seen was sung (and played, on two pianos) by two caged-in queens at a piano bar in Dallas. The waitresses in the bar all got up on the pianos and did the dance steps, and the patrons all fell about trying to emulate them. It may have been the amount of Sam Adams I'd consumed, but I thought it was absolutely priceless. Ah, well! 
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W3 proposes the spiced toast origin... stay tuned.
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the movie ran in Mpls. for 25 years via Saturday midnight showing at an old landmark theater (Uptown); it was almost required to go in costume (and bring a plastic sheet if you sat up front).
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no house hold is complete with out its very own copy of the video.. old shower curtains make good indoor tarps.. the beer is cheaper, (especially if you have a keg!) and its so much easier to replay your favorite scenes--again and again..
(and fishnet stocking are so uncomfortable if you actually have to walking around in them..)
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