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It certainly isn't ww who got things wrong - it was me  I managed, in a senior moment, to confuse myself, and you. It is indeed, bergamot oil that flavours Earl Gray, and the only connection with borage is in my fevered mind.
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>the only connection with borage is in my fevered mind.
Too much bromide maybe?
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Being the ignorant b- that I am, there was not a single toast that I could recall besides "Bottoms up" and the ubiquitous "Please charge your glasses, be upstanding - and here's to <<insert name or title of principal guest/s>>. It's not that we're an unimaginative lot here in Oz - it's just that speechifying and toasting cuts into precious drinking time. Frown on me if you will, but I had a bit of a google and came up with the following URL - the author's arranged a whole bunch of toast by category: http://members.aol.com/xibarblue/toasts.html EDIT: Have edited this URL and it now works (sorry :-) thanks jwhstales
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I realize bergamot comes from a sort of citrus tree--Italian, I think--
Yes, it is a tree coming from mixing orange and citron trees. It is typical of Calabria - if you think of Italy as a boot, the part of fingers..In fact, this kind of trees needs a lot of sun, and grows well just in the south.
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"Kennst du das Land wo die Citronen blühen......"
I tried to check this in Yahoo! Germany, and was sadly disappointed.
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...if you think of Italy as a boot, the part of fingers..
I presume you're referring to the foot fingers? "dedos de pie" ~ I've always loved that. In Korean, the word for ankle translates to "foot neck" and wrist is "hand neck". That fractures me...
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Cheers to you
Cheers to me
Friends for life we'll always be
If perchance we disagree
F*** yous all, cheers to me.
Or
Cheers big ears
Here's to queers buccaneers and auctioneers
May virgins vanish
And prostitutes prosper
May <insert rude word here> become a household word
Cheers to you
Cheers to me
May we never disagree
If we do, <reinsert rude word> to you
Cheers to me
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I understand that in many social organizations, such as the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, Masonic Lodges, etc., there is a regular order of toasts at a formal dinner. The first is always the "Loyal Toast", to the Queen; and there is a strict rule which goes that "smoking is not permitted until the Queen is drunk."
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In Indonesia toes are jari kaki , literally foot fingers. Ankle is mata kaki, literally foot eye, or pergelangan kaki. Wrist is pergelangan tangan. Pergelangan means the place for bracelets. Tangan is hand.
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Don't kid me, it was one of the cases in which I have to say something different from what I want since I miss the word - here, I don't know how to say 'the front part of the foot'. We say the 'punta' as in - I suppose - the point of an arrow.
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