Finding: Cheers! doesn't have to be hard.

So you're out with 8 or 12 people for somebody's birthday or some similar occasion. Someone raises a glass to toast the birthday person, a lovely gesture that focuses the attention of the group and sets a festive mood. Then it goes bad. Somewhere along the line Raise, Toast, Clink, Drink has turned into this elaborate mess where everyone feels that they have to touch the glass of everyone else at the table. So what are we talking about here, 72 individual clinks? Sure, you can knock off 5 or 6 in the first cluster, but then the over-under, oh-did-I-get-you, reach across the apps extravaganza begins. And then you got the guy at the end of the table that feels the need to get up and walk over to the opposite end. Throw in the look-into-everyone's-eyes-as-you-drink thing and by the time you're done your beer is warm or the best third of your martini is dripping from your elbow. There must be a better way.

I propose this: Imagine the person who initiates the toast creates an electric charge. The words of the toast are converted into special toast electrons (t-). The alcohol filled glasses become t- superconductors. Any glass that touches the toaster's glass receives the full power of the toast. But here's where the magic begins. Because the glasses are perfect conductors of the toast, you don't have to actually touch the toaster's glass to receive all of the good feelings of the toast. You can touch a glass that's touching the toaster. Or you can touch the next glass in line. You could line up one hundred glasses, and the last glass would feel the feelings of the toast just as strongly as the first. Furthermore, the alcohol in the glass will will hold the t- charge for several seconds, so if by some chance you miss the circuit, one touch with someone who didn't insures full-toast good feelings. Once you have the concept down, it becomes fluid and simple: Cheers! Ka-Clink! Gulp, gulp gulp.