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About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the “honey month” or what we know to day as the “Honey” “Moon”

Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase ” The Rule of the Thumb”

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get “mind your own P’s and Q’s”.

After consuming a vibrant brew called Aul or Ale, the Vikings would go fearlessly to the battlefield, without their armour, or even their shirts. The “Berserk” means “bear shirt” in norse, and eventually to the meaning of wild battles.

Way down in 1740, the Admiral Veron of the British fleet decided to water down the navy’s rum, which naturally, the sailors weren’t pleased with. They nicknamed the Admiral Old Grog, after the still stiff grogram coats he used to wear. The term grog soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this this grog, you are “groggy”, a word still in use.

Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, “wet your whistle”.

More Irish Toasts

• May the dust of your carriage wheels blind the eyes of your foes.
• May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
• May your fire never go out.
• May your well never run dry.
• Sláinte: Irish Gaelic and pronounced ‘slawn-cha’ means health, much the same as ‘cheers’.
• May we be alive at this time next year.
• May the roof above you never fall in and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
• A bird with one wing can’t fly – said to encourage someone to take a second drink.
• May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.

Irish Blessings – For the Country:

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

Irish Blessings – For the Home:

Walls for the wind,
And a roof for the rain,
And drinks beside the fire –
Laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire!

Irish ‘Road’ Blessing:

May the road rise up to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the sun shine down upon your face.
And the rain fall soft upon your fields
Until we meet again
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand

Irish Drinking Toast

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
Half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.

Alternative Irish Toast:

Here’s to our wives and girlfriends:
May they never meet!

In the end, there are only two things to worry about:
either you are well or you are sick.
When you’re well, there is nothing to worry about.
But if you’re sick, then there are two things to worry about:
either you get well or you will die.
When you get well, there is nothing to worry about.
But when you die, then there are two things to worry about:
either you’ll go to heaven or you’ll go to hell.
When you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about.
But when you go to hell, you’ll be so damn busy shaking hands with friends,
you won’t have time to worry!
SO WHY WORRY!?

Just drunks, not skunks, in the middle of the road

Pecica Mayor Petru Antal ordered the signs that depict the image of a kneeling partier next to a bottle of alcohol that says “Attention – Drunks” to be erected along the roads in and out of the town that has a vibrant nightlife, Ananova reports.

The mayor pointed out that drivers are at risk of running over local residents, who enjoy the town’s bars to the point where they are unable to take proper care of themselves on the way home.

“We have to target the drivers because by the time the pedestrians get into this state they are beyond caring,” Antal said.

He added that he believed the signs were a positive contribution and was not worried about the image sent out about the town’s citizens.

Salute!