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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but it made about as much sense as a lot of stuff posted here.

JL


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:32 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 <
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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)
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> > Mine's bigger. <har! har!>
> >
> > You talk of a Sight, of a field of Commanders
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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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