# Tell us about your coffee cup! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864 "2003-02-18T12:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864/61 "2003-02-22T17:56:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\*Wow. YOU got a 'STAFF" mug too? I thought mine was just a bureaucratic mix-up. \*\* Only reason I have one is because I was part of the staff during our last couple of months at AOL before they decided they were better off without us. In a way, I still am staff though without any official duties for the past four years. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864/62 "2003-02-22T19:22:21Z")
I bought myself a new cup! I found myself in WalMart very early this morning, and there they were…those cobalt blue clear glass mugs in a nice curvy shape. So I treated myself and brought it home. It’s lovely, and holds much more than I expected. What _is_ it with cobalt kitchenware? It sells like crazy in my antiques booth, and I can’t get enough of it in my own kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864/63 "2003-02-22T19:58:46Z")
It’s that pretty blue which is so soothing. Like my new sapphire ring !! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864/64 "2003-02-22T20:47:41Z")
I have a variety of coffee cups. One stainless steel coffee travel mug, one shiny, almost mirror surface green coffee mug, two World Wrestling Entertainment mugs, one Risperdal mug (a drug that I dispense in the pharmacy quite often), 4 mugs with cows on them that someone gave me, four plain white mugs that came with a stand, and a cobalt mug. 😃 At work, I stick to the Risperdal mug, and at home I use the WWE mug. (No one in the house will use them, because they think wrestling is stupid.) Oh, and for Christmas two years ago, a cow-orker gave me a “one cup” coffee maker. It came with a nice stainless steel mug, and it makes just enough coffee to fill it up. I don’t ever get to use it, though, because I never drink just one cup. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864/65 "2003-02-23T04:49:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\*So how do you know which one is YOURS, verses EVERYONE ELSES’? Magic marker? \*\* Mine is on my desk. Funnily enough when our director retired I wrote his name on the bottom of my cup and proceeded to drink from it in a meeting the next day. People noticed and were horrified that as soon as he left I “stole” his cup. ---
**Author:** ![coosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coosa)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864/66 "2003-02-23T06:35:25Z")
My primary coffee cup is my Straight Dope coffee cup (hey, I have a T-shirt, too!) My back-up cup is a Ft. McClellan Memorial cup (base was on the closing list) that my sister bought for me. I found out the hard way that the gold edge around the top is _real gold_ when I put it in the microwave one day. :eek: I used to have a really neat cup I got while working at the vet clinic, courtesy of the Advantage salesman (Advantage is a topical flea treatment made by Bayer) - it had a picture of a big, ugly black insect that is supposed to be a flea on the side. When you filled it up with coffee the heat caused the ‘flea’ to slowly fade away, to be replaced by a smiling cat and dog with little fleas jumping off of them in every direction. It was cute! The cats broke it. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-coffee-cup/155864.md?page=3)