I'm sorry but every time I see Alex's thread title, I think it is missing a word. 
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David
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You mean like Trink Trink Bruderlein Trink?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCoEDiZ1VYo
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I'm familar with Irish Drinking Songs
Favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJVtF...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-moC...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Hb5nzwE4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPIC-o1O3k
and of course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfJuG...eature=relatedOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas EdisonComment
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Maybe it's dancing, or marching.
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Here's some you can download (for a price):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ent=B000QLD83Y
That clip looks like it was filmed in the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. That stuff goes on there every night. I grew up with that music, since both my parents came from Germany. Darned if I haven't forgotten most of them, though!Comment
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"Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit, der Gemütlichkeit!
...zicke, zacke, zicke, zacke, hoi, hoi, hoi!"
online at http://www.theFrankes.com
while ( !( succeed = try() ) ) ;
"Life is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult." -HippocratesComment
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The town that I grew up in, Frankenmuth, MI, was founded by German Lutheran missionaries back in the 1840s. Since about 1960, they have been trading on their German heritage with an annual Bavarian Festival in the spring, and an Oktoberfest in the fall. Haven't indulged in a lot of years, even though I'm only 20 miles away. Lots of these drinking songs can be heard during these events, though.Comment
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I'm not too familiar with them, but we have a box filled with LPs of German drinking songs (and other German songs too) that we inherited from my wife's grandfather. Everything German music (from the 70s or earlier, I suppose) in there. German drinking songs, German polkas, German zither music.. And boy, some of the covers are wild. I can't say that we have listened to them, but eventually we want to get the best of them on the computer with our collection of music.Comment
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Wow. I didn't really expect any replies. This was supposed to be somewhat of a facetious thread.David
The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.Comment
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According to Webster, the definition of facetious is:
1. jocular in an often clumsy or inappropriate manner.
2. characterized by pleasantry or levity.
In my observations of the activities associated with German drinking songs, they start out jocular, and are always charachterized by pleasantry or levity. Only if continued for too long, do things get clumsy or inappropriate.
So, I guess it fits!Comment
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Oops! I meant "characterized".Comment
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Irish drinking songs...isn't that a redundancy?!
In England, they adhere very strictly to closing time.
I was in a pub in Ireland, the bartender announced 'closing time', and the only things they closed were the curtains and the door! We continued to drink for a couple more hours. And of course, there was a tenor singing, and the comment 'oh, he's a lovely man' could be heard repeatedly.You don't need a parachute to skydive, you only need a parachute to skydive twice.Comment
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I learned how to sine "Ein Prosit' many Oktober Fests agoo, back in the 60s. Back in the good old days.
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