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What a great start to 2010! hehehe
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Does anyone know the origins of the expression "BOTTOMS UP" as used in drinking?
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Happy New Year 2010 to all fellow classmates and form/schoolmates.....
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For 2010, could u all please send me money, holiday packages, wine, cuban cigars, defence contracts without the beautiful models.
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lets do a mini reunion in Uk with John Lee as the orginizer..he seems to have access to great models (well...great asses at least)....
ReplyDeleteWJ, I think the origins of the expression 'BOTTOMS UP'in drinking simply means to finish your drink in one go and in doing so, the BOTTOMS of the glasses will be UP in the air.
ReplyDeleteUsually we can see the guys doing that in old classic cowboy movies drinking in bar salons and later on they punch each other cos they were drunk! I may be wrong, I don't know.
According to the book "Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep" by Albert Jack, which a good friend recently gave me as X'mas present, the following is the origin of the phrase BOTTOMS UP ...
ReplyDelete"When drinking with friend, it is not unusual for someone to announce 'Bottoms Up!' as the session begins. Many imagine this to be the action of draining a glass so that the bottom is raised higher than our lips. Not so; in fact, events in history provide the root of this well-known phrase. During the 18th and 19th centuries, English press gangs would coerce drinkers in London's dockside pubs into joining the armed forces, usually the navy. Men who accepted the 'King's shilling' were deemed to have willingly contracted to join the navy, and this led to unscrupulous behaviour by the commissioned press gangs. One of their dishonest techniques was to drop a shilling into a pint pot of a drunk or unsuspecting man, which would go undetected until the poor chap had drained his tankard. Once the shilling was discovered, the press gangers claimed to others that this was proof a payment had been accepted, and the victim would then be dragged away to wake up the following morning on board a ship far out to sea, unaware of what had happened to them the night before. The unfortunate fellow might then spend years on the ocean wave. Once public houses and drinkers became aware of this scam, they introduced tankards with transparent bases (which can still be found hanging in some pubs today) and customers would be reminded to lift the pint up and check the bottom for illicit shillings before they began drinking."
St. Joe Librarian could be right, ya, he's right. So, there you have it WJ.
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