# The way you say "Cheers"; and, for that matter, ways you don't say cheers **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 19, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367 "2006-04-19T21:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/41 "2006-04-22T16:26:41Z")
Another one for “Slàinte” or “Cheers”. > [@Birdmonster](#): > > I’m talking about the clicking of glasses here, not the British thank you. … Incidentally, I never use “cheers” for “thank you” as that usage seemed to appear out of nowhere some (all right, rather a lot of ) years ago, and I found it confusing and a bit annoying. Yes, I am becoming an old fogey. Here’s to us Wha’s like us Gey few and they’re all deid 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jamaika\_a\_jamaikaiake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/42 "2006-04-22T23:52:24Z")
In Hungarian, it’s Egészségedre! (approx: eh-gaysh-shay-gehd-reh), which means ‘to your health’ They clink glasses, [but not if they contain beer.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_beer) (last paragraph) ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/43 "2006-04-23T00:02:16Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Only ever ‘cheers’, or ‘slainche’ when with the Irish relatives. The only times I can recall anything else spontaneous are “to so-and-so”, always in a wake or other post-funeral pub visit. > > And I hate clinking of glasses. Just raise them, and the job is done. Why even raise the glass? Just say what you want to say and be done with it. We never had this problem back in the day. Everybody just said “'ere”, and passed it around. 😉 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/44 "2006-04-23T12:01:01Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > I haven’t heard “cheers, big ears!” in absolute _ages_. Used to all over the show from around the late 1970s. Never thought it was connected with the Blyton character, though – just a rhyming thing with “cheers”. A chap I once flew with related a story where he was best man at a wedding between a friend of his and girl from a tribe in Africa (or somewhere.) The wedding was held in the tribe’s village and his friend was pretty much throwing away the comforts of western civilisation for the simple life. A good time was had by all during the celebrations. Particularly by my Kiwi colleague and his newly-wed friend who took great delight in making toasts by saying “cheers big ears!” to various non-english-speaking tribe members who had large heavy objects dangling from their earlobes, stretching them down to their shoulders :D. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/45 "2006-04-23T16:03:13Z")
My favorite is “Here’s looking up your old address!” Always gets a laugh. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/46 "2006-04-23T16:49:13Z")
During my brief stint playing rugby, I learned this toast: Here’s to you and here’s to me The best of friends we’ll always be And if you decide to shit on me Then fuck you bitch and here’s to me! It was a classy group of ladies that I played rugby with. More often then not, I’ll just go with, “Selud!” ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/47 "2006-04-23T18:05:12Z")
> [@MissMossie](#): > > During my brief stint playing rugby, I learned this toast: > > Here’s to you and here’s to me > The best of friends we’ll always be > And if you decide to shit on me > Then fuck you bitch and here’s to me! > > It was a classy group of ladies that I played rugby with. More often then not, I’ll just go with, “Selud!” You mean “Salud”. Spanish for “health”. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/48 "2006-04-23T18:13:01Z")
“May you friends be stout and your enemies ail, a thimble of troubles, and joy by the pail.” ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/49 "2006-04-23T23:51:14Z")
I read one from (I think) Robert Culp, whenever he’d find himself at a party in the Playboy Mansion, back in its glory days: “Ladies and gentlemen, be of good cheer. For _they_ are out there, and _we_ are in here.” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/50 "2006-04-24T01:15:07Z")
To our wives and sweethearts… ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/51 "2006-04-24T01:15:55Z")
Culp may have said that, but I’m pretty sure he would have quoting someone else. I think it predates him by quite a bit. I’ll try to remember. It was someone famous atr a New York club? mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/52 "2006-04-24T01:40:11Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > To our wives and sweethearts… May they never meet! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/53 "2006-04-24T14:43:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > My favorite is “Here’s looking up your old address!” Always gets a laugh. What exactly does that mean? Henry Blake used to say it on MASH. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/54 "2006-04-24T14:59:08Z")
Kippis! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367/55 "2006-04-24T16:05:01Z")
> [@brian\_ax](#): > > What exactly does that mean? > > Henry Blake used to say it on MASH. Nothing. It’s all in the intonation; if said with a leer, people think you’re about to say something risque. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-way-you-say-cheers-and-for-that-matter-ways-you-dont-say-cheers/353367.md?page=2)