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post #16 of 25
5/16/11 at 6:13am
If you choose to 'clink' beer bottles together, I recall that clinking the bottle bottoms together could lead to disaster. It is wiser to clink the necks together, like two giraffes telling each other a secret.
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post #17 of 25
5/16/11 at 12:01pm
One of the traditions of "cheers with a clink" is that the clink rounds out the senses.

You can see wine, smell wine, feel wine and taste it.

"Clinking" the glasses metophorically allows you to hear the wine, completing the total sensory picture.

So says the tradition,
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post #18 of 25
5/16/11 at 12:03pm
The only thing that I follow is that if you do participate in the toast, don't clink/raise glass/make eye contact and then put your glass back down. You HAVE to drink.
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post #19 of 25
5/16/11 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by Douglas View Post
i always chink glasses before taking a nip.

quoted for comedy gold.
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post #20 of 25
5/16/11 at 1:15pm
Traditionally speaking clinking the glasses is a faux pas but it has been widely adopted and is pretty much replacing the formerly more restrained method (air contact).
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post #21 of 25
5/17/11 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by SeanathonHuff View Post
like two giraffes telling each other a secret.
lol this is awesome! might be because i'm drinking though...
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post #22 of 25
5/17/11 at 8:21pm
I think it's safe to say that 90% of americans clink at bars. Elsewhere it's different. I wouldn't do it with fine wine or in a wine bar, even if I'm drinking beer.
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post #23 of 25
5/18/11 at 4:32am
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Originally Posted by ktrp View Post
You're supposed to slosh your drinks together, thereby showing you haven't poisoned each other.

correct, necessitating the symbolic clink, at least that's the theory i operate under.
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post #24 of 25
5/18/11 at 10:38am
Clink for beers, and no clink for champagne.
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post #25 of 25
5/18/11 at 10:45am
Clink if sitting close to each other. If it requires some kind of strange stretch to reach, do not clink, simply raise.
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