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Originally Posted by adipose
This is my school, and yes, indeed, it is intended to look like a "toast" or swinging a stein. We actually adjusted the motion a few years back to make it look less like a drinking motion, but that is the idea and where it came from (rumor has it that this tradition was originally a drinking song, but I'm not sure about that).
And yes we walk very calmly into the houses, it is actually an infraction at the school to be loud after the toast!
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I think the walking calmly at the end of the "toast" adds an air of elegance and mystery.
