_Bumper_ "a cup or a glass filled to overflowing with hard drink"

[Wilson Gray]

Damn! My apologies. I pressed return/send and not shift.


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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>               drink"
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > Let every man toss off a full bumper,
> > Let every man toss off a full glass;
> > And let ye be merry and drown melancholy,
> > And drink a success to each true-hearted lass!
> >
> >                                               - song, "Spanish Ladies"
> > (ca1820)
> >
>
> Mine's bigger. <har! har!>
>
> You talk of a Sight, of a field of Commanders
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>
> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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--
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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