Mine is a travel-type mug one of those with an anti-spill cap.
It has a logo that sez “coffee people aero moka” and “air tour 95’” then “hello from Oregon” in several different languages.
My little bro got it in Oregon and gave it to me, it never gets washed only rinsed.
Oh,don’t touch my coffee mug!…or suffer severe physical consequenses
We have plenty of coffee cups here but I stick to my own cup that I bought long ago. Its a Maleficent cup (evil witch from Sleeping Beauty) and the handle on it is a curved dragons tale. It says “I look good in black, it matches my mood” I looooove IT! And I get grumpy when people use it. ITS MINE!!!
I’ve got two at work right now - one is a brushed stainless steel travel mug which Amazon.com sent me a long time ago for being such a good customer. I’m still amazed they sent me something so nice for free.
The other mug is black with white letters and says “If you had my job, you’d drink too.” Which is an appropriate sentiment on many days.
At home, I’ve got one mug with the University’s logo on it, one with the School’s logo on it, one that says “School Sucks,” which I used in college, and a couple with pictures of greyhounds on them. One to suit any mood. Almost all my mugs were given to me as gifts.
Tryin’ to quit.
I have undergone a tragic transformation into one of those people who only ever drinks out of the same travel mug … First I found one that doesn’t drip or leak and which allows you to remove the lid without spilling the contents all over yourself. (As an added bonus it seals completely so you can throw it in your bag and not dribble coffee on your stuff.) Dunno why such a creature is so hard to find: you don’t ask for a lot from your thermos mug, do you? Why is it so hard to make a decent one? So I usually drink coffee in the morning and take the remainder to work. After a few weeks of that I realized how quickly coffee gets cold in a regular mug, and started using it exclusively. Not fashionable but it does the job !
sadly this puts many cool mugs out of my repetoire: the one with my name on it, the ‘Fuck off, I’m reading the Onion’ one, and the one with the cartoon with a guy making a presentation to his co-workers, and saying to one of them ‘That’s a pretty stupid question, Joe, I’m afraid I’ll have to kill you.’ Which makes me laugh every damn time. Also I love handmade clay ones but I don’t want to use them every day for fear of breaking them.
Last semester I used my Wells College travel mug, which never got washed since I only use it for water. It is also called the Forbidden Mug because it is so top heavy that I tip it over and spill at least once a week. This semester I remembered to bring back my plain black Wal*Mart purchased travel mug. It holds less, but doesn’t tip over.
For hot chocolate or Ramen, I use either my ceramic New York State Fair Llama Show mug, or my “Freshwoman Mug” I got when I first got to Wells. It’s a dollar store tall ceramic mug with flowers painted on.
Rolling Thunder 257th Transportation Company U.S. Army Reserve, and it’s more of a hot cocoa mug.
My favorite has all the Panavision primo lenses lined up, sitting on what appears to be a reflecting pool in front of a beautiful blue sky. I’ve used it so much, that the picture has started to wear away where my thumb rests when I grab it around the side rather than using the handle. Next time I’m at Panavision, I’ll have to pick up another one. Hopefully they still carry them!
Egads.
Glad I’m not the only one with a mug addiction.
My fave is one made for me by a friend. Kodos is my favourite-ist Simpsons character, so a friend went to one of those “Paint Yer Own Pottery” places and made me my own mug with him/her/it.
My next fave is a Scorpio mug. They just hold the ~perfect~ amount of tea.
Speaking of which, I think it’s teatime again…
I have lots of mugs, too. Here at work I use the white one with pretty flowers, or the black one that says “Coffee from Hell”. At home, my favorites are Taz, and the aardvark one that says “don’t vark too aard.” I have one that has a heart on it, and when you pour the coffee in it changes to “I love you” with the heat. Lots more with assorted company logos.
Straight Dope Staff Mug. Bow down before me, peasants. 
Actually, it sits atop my PC as a token of my immeasurable power. I drink Italian espresso from a designer cup. I know, I know. I’m a snob.
I’ve collected about 35 or so but they’re mainly just used at home on the weekends.
My daily travel mug that holds 4 or 5 cups is a big ol’ Eddie Bauer cone shaped monstrosity with a very wide base that won’t turn over unless the car does.
Lots of mugs at home – my favorites being clear mugs that I got at World Market and a HUGE mug with the blue M&M on the side (it holds almost half a pot of coffee at a time… sheer heaven).
At work, it’s a stainless-steel travel mug with a lid I got from one of my vendors. The lid being a necessity, otherwise the paperwork on my desk would be drenched in coffee rather than just being lightly spotted with it.
No mug, just a big 16-20 oz thermal cup. Refill at least once, maybe twice, then go back to bed. I think I’m immune to caffiene.
(1) A UCLA Kerckhoff Coffeehouse Mug, 1992 - 1992. It’s dark blue with attractive artwork including the coffeehouse logo, and, I think, samples of the stained glass work that can be seen in some of the windows there. The dark color is good because it hides moste of the dribblage.
(2) A Pfalzgraff Star Treck mug inspired by The Undiscovered Country. I’m told it’s much like you might find on a Navy ship. This one has the advantage over (1) that it’s a bit larger, but it also shows the dribblage more. The ugly appearance of the drippings on the outside of the cup is the only reason I don’t use it more. Fondness of Trek is something I display proudly.
Well, at home we have tons of coffee mugs, most of them swag from conferences or business gifts. Someone looking at the cabinet o’ mugs would probably think we’re pharmacutical reps. Then there are the ‘collectable’ cups: dragonware, etc. The latter are never used. The former are used, and since we get so many of them we don’t care what happens to them. (Some become planters, paint pots, etc.)
At work however, I use either a bright red Christmas-y mug that holds a bit more than the average… or my Mondo-Travel-Mug-From-Hell. It has this University’s logo on it, and it can hold a six-pack or a 10-cup coffee pot easily. 
(It can’t quite fit an entire 12-cup coffee pot though.)
<< Bottoms up! >>
I don’t drink coffee, but my favorite martini glass was picked up at a thrift store for a buck. It has the official seal of the Contra Costa County Sheriff/Coroner on it. It doesn’t get any weirder than that!
At work, the coffee mug I use has the emblem of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), which I bought from their web site to support their good work in liberating Afghan women. When I started my new job and brought my coffee mug along, I found several Afghan gentlemen working there. Good, I’m being up front about where my sympathies belong.
At home I have my coffee in a stainless steel 16 ounce mug. My at work mug came from the souvenir stand at the Kingdome while attending a car show about 10 years ago. It use to say Seattle Mariners on it but that was rubbed and scraped off within a year. A few years ago someone put a Boeing F.O.D. sticker on it. It is gray plastic, the inside was white, it is now mostly black and it has a blue lid. The inside really is nasty but my coffee tastes so good in it. Everyone in my shop knows its mine and if I set it down somewhere, within 15 minutes 5 people will tell me where I left it.
I’m currently searching for new mugs. I have two, one Disney, one Swag, that I use the most. They’re 16 oz or so, with big, comfy handles that fit all four fingers, the better to wrap my hands around that first, yummy cup. I also have a big one for serious coffee drinking on weekends, that has Winnie the Pooh in several poses… one of which he looks like he’s making armpit farts. My tea mug is a little shorter, with a narrower lip, and has some modern-art cows on it in orange and green. I also put my stainless steel University-logo travel mug to good use.