"Cast your bread upon the water", (or "wine into the bathtub", as worked for my mate last week!)

grahamg

Old codger
Apparently a phrase from the bible, quoted by my good self to a mate last week, after I'd offered the two bottles of wine he and his wife had bought to some unexpected guest on the table of ten people at a Gala Dinner, (a table they had arranged or booked).

Anyway, having had a flea in my ear for doing so I cleverly bought a single bottle of red, mainly because I knew this would make him feel guilty, and in any event he's been such a good mate generally over many years, and then low and behold, later on the the boss of the two guys who had been drinking his wine, and ejoying everyone's company they'd enhanced by their presence, bought two more bottles of wine for everyone!!!!!

Hence my new phrase, "Casting your wine into the bathtub", (and seeing just how much flows back to you in return!). 🪠🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️

Anyone else had a similar experience? :unsure:
 

"An interlude", (whilst someone shows a bit of interest), taken from a website using the phrase in the thread title:
https://cdispatch.com/opinions/2014-06-09/possumhaw-gather-the-hay-while-you-may/

Quote:
"**** responded to the email saying it was best to wait several dry days and then turn the hay over and wait a few more days before gathering.

The second batch of hay was dry and green and full of seeds. The rabbits loved it. I have six more pillowcases to fill. I am the ant, preparing for winter.

While I sat on the makeshift bench and read, the rabbits nibbled tender lettuce, strawberry leaves, a small leafy pear branch, clover, an assortment of mints, a carrot and a sliver of apple. Then I heard a swishing sound. I turned to see three white ducks waddling ridiculously toward me. They had crossed 100 yards of field.

Their appearance was disturbing. The ducks have decided they do not like waiting on the rabbits for their own food and readings. I shooed them back to the lake and safety; I poured their corn and cast their bread on the water. I reminded them we do not live by bread alone."
 

There have been songs written would you believe about casting bread on to the waters (mostly religious songs of course), and here is a clip or extract from one:

"Keep on casting your bread upon the water
Soon it´s gonna come back home on every way
Just keep on casting your bread upon the water
Soon it´s gonna come back home to stay
Keep on casting your bread upon the water
Soon it´s gonna come back home on every way
On every way"

As that song maybe aint the best here is one with the lyrics about about "smoke on the water", (there may be more of these, and I've got a very famous female vocalist in my head but cant yet remember her name!):

Lyrics

"We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time

Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground,

Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

But burning down

They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
He was pulling kids out the ground

When it all was over
We had to find another place
Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race, now

Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water

We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty cold and bare
With the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there

Few red lights and a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget,

Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water"

 
Apparently a phrase from the bible, quoted by my good self to a mate last week, after I'd offered the two bottles of wine he and his wife had bought to some unexpected guest on the table of ten people at a Gala Dinner, (a table they had arranged or booked).

Anyway, having had a flea in my ear for doing so I cleverly bought a single bottle of red, mainly because I knew this would make him feel guilty, and in any event he's been such a good mate generally over many years, and then low and behold, later on the the boss of the two guys who had been drinking his wine, and ejoying everyone's company they'd enhanced by their presence, bought two more bottles of wine for everyone!!!!!

Hence my new phrase, "Casting your wine into the bathtub", (and seeing just how much flows back to you in return!). 🪠🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️

Anyone else had a similar experience? :unsure:
All that to say you bought a bottle of wine to make someone feel guilty. Then a boss bought two more bottles.

At least that is what I interpreted from that really confusing post.
 
All that to say you bought a bottle of wine to make someone feel guilty. Then a boss bought two more bottles.
At least that is what I interpreted from that really confusing post.
I knew you would be succinct once again, but you did forget the bit about my informing my friend he should try to trust the fact that he'd given away some wine, (or I had for him, thinking it was for the table at the Gala dinner, he and his wife had kindly organised), and what was given away came back to him "tenfold"!!!!!! :) :) :)
 
"There is a real irony to this thread that no one seems to be getting"!!:)
What I am getting is that you don't understand the full meaning of the quotation

Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters Meaning Definition: To do something kind or good without expecting anything in return. If you cast your bread upon the waters, you do good deeds for others without expecting anything in return. This expression comes from the Bible, in Ecclesiastes 11.
 
It sounds like you managed to turn a bottle of wine into more wine. Now all you need is to have one of your mates show up with 5 loaves of bread & a couple of fish.
 
It sounds like you managed to turn a bottle of wine into more wine. Now all you need is to have one of your mates show up with 5 loaves of bread & a couple of fish.
It isn't myself who really did anything, (other than misunderstand a quotation I used I'm now being told!), rather my friends inadvertent generosity benefitting himself in the end, though he didn't expect this outcome! :rolleyes:
 

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