Our Favorite Tumbrel Remark

   Lady Diana Cooper was waiting under her umbrella outside the Dorchester hotel tapping her foot impatiently waiting for her Rolls Royce when a beggar approached her and announced that he had been without food for three days. Her response? "Foolish man that you are. You must try to eat. If need be, you must force yourself."

A list of my favorite brindisis (Opera drinking songs)

So let's raise our goblets and sing....

• "Libiamo ne' lieti calici"  - from Verdi's La traviata.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWECvv4wcIQ

• "Viva, il vino spumeggiante"  - from Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OlbwdEnrdc

• "Si colmi il calice" from Verdi's Macbeth.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WRyz3P6_Xw

• "Inaffia l'ugola" from Verdi's Otello.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6qKmAQ8klQ

• "Vin ou Bière" from Gounod's Faust.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXw8UQnRRo0

• "Il segreto per esser felici" from Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNssdwEAQl4