“May all your ups and downs be between the sheets.”
This struck us as the height of wit at high school keggers.
A visual gag toast, generally used on close friends:
<hold up your glass>
“Here’s to X…” where X is the man of the hour
<sip from glass, turn head to one side, and spit it back out on floor>
“Ya prick.”
Works best when you coordinate the gag ahead of time, so everybody but the mark spits.
This is fantastic. I’m to be the best man at my father’s wedding in a couple weeks (pressure? yeah, a little), and I think I’m going to use several of the less raunchy of these.
In John D. McDonald’s book The Walking Drum, which is set in the 15th century, there are a group of people of another country (don’t remember what country, been years and years since I’ve read the book), who use the toast: “Yol Bolsun” which translates to: “May there be a road”.
I’ve always found it to be simple, yet complex in its implications. I like it. Unfortunately, I only get to use it (in the original languange) with my husband (who read the book right before I did), because no one else knows what it means.
The book was written by Louis L’Amour, not McDonald. I loved it as a kid but find it kind of cheesy now. In any case, Yol Bolsun is a great toast. I used to use it as a closing back in the day when I used to write actual letters.
Heres to the duck who swam in the lake,
Who fed his mother by mistake.
Now you might think that fking’s a sin
But it’s been around since time began.
Adam f*ed Eve, and she is our mother,
So we were put on this earth to fk one another.
Drink!
Perhaps more of a “bachelor party” than wedding toast…
Here’s to the women in their little red shoes
They’ll spend our money and they’ll drink our booze
They may have their cherry, but that’s not any sin
'cause they still have the box that the cherry came in