An Irish man, Mr. Halligan, went drinking with his buddies every Friday night...

and on this particular Friday night Halligan and the boys decided to have a contest to see who could make the best drinking toast.

They went around the room saying their toasts, when finally it came to Mr. Halligan who thought he may have a winner.

"May we all spend the rest of our lives, between the legs of our wives" he said.

His friends all agreed that this was the best toast of the night and bought Halligan a round.

Later that night when Mr. Halligan got home he stumbled in the doorway and was immediately confronted by his wife, Mrs. Halligan.

"How was your night drinking with the boys?" she asked.

"Wonderful," he replied, "we had a contest to see who could make the best toast and I won!"

"Oh what was your toast?" his wife asked eagerly.

As he was about to tell her, he remembered that Mrs. Halligan was a devout Irish Catholic, and certainly wouldn't approve of the toast he had made. Thinking quick on his feet Mr. Halligan said,

"My toast was, 'May we all spend the rest of our lives, in church with our wives'".

Mrs. Halligan was elated that Mr. Halligan and his friends voted such a pleasant toast as the best of the night, and kissed him as she went off to bed.

The following day, Mrs. Halligan was at the grocery store and ran into one of her husbands drinking buddies, Mr. O'Doyle.

"Mr. O'Doyle, how great it is to see you. I just wanted to say how wonderful I think it is that you all voted my husbands toast as the best of the night. What a pleasant thought that was."

Mr. O'Doyle had a very confused look on his face, because he knew Mrs. Halligan quite well and knew that she was a devout Irish Catholic. He never would have thought she would like a toast like that.

"Really?" he asked. "You really like THAT toast?"

"Of course I did!" she exclaimed. "The only strange this is that Mr. Halligan has only been down there twice this year. The first time he fell asleep halfway through, and the second him I practically had to stick my foot up his butt just to get him to come!"