I have a coffee mug with a tiny image of Guernica by Pablo Picasso on it.
Mine is the Far Side Mug pictured here: Damned if you do…
Mine says:
bitch
Bitch
BITCH
mmm… coffee
This.
The closest runner up is from a Get Fuzzy strip, back when they were funny. Bucky notes that there are poet laureates, and declares that he will be a “slap you upside the head” laureate. The human says that nobody will pay for that, and Bucky says that he’ll provide it as a free service.
How big is it on the inside?
And since folks are mentioning mugs that change with heat, I had one many years ago that changed from Pangaea to the modern continents (or the other way around, I can’t remember). It was a free gift with subscription to Science News. The mug itself is still fine, but after a while the heat-sensitive dyes wear out, and it’s permanently stuck with both scenes half-faded-out.
My University’s name, and its logo (emblem? Dealie…?).
It has various sketch drawings of Tinkerbell around it ending with a completed, colored drawing as we know her now.
“DAD” in a heart. My daughter made it for me at one of those paint-your-own-ceramic places. It’s a good mug anyway, but is even better because of what she did.
Nothings better for coffee that well-thrown pottery, is there?
Mine was a 'GBH Mystery Mug; when heated, the Murderer was revealed skulking behind the draperies.
I wonder if they still have them …
Mine is a big thick ceramic thing that holds lots of coffee and keeps it hot. Decorated with a full-length portrait of Grumpy (the Disney dwarf) in full surly glower. My ex-wife gave it to me years ago - said it was an accurate depiction of yrs. truely just prior to getting my morning coffee. I treasure the mug and the thought behind it.
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It doesn’t say anything. It just has patterns on it.
I have this. My favorite one I found by the recycling bin: U.S.S. Nautilus SSN 571
Nope, Tea or hot chocolate too. I love their pottery and my goal is to eventually have a whole dish set from there.
I have three favorites at the moment.
- Capitol Orthopedics. It’s my favorite because it’s big.
- FEMA. It’s also big, but it’s not as stable of a shape.
- Pritchett Engineering. It’s not as big, but it’s a smaller diameter which is nice.
I drink my weekend coffee out of a clear glass “Elder Care Alliance” mug that I snagged from the apartment complex “freebie table”. At work I have a boring plain green travel mug.
Mine is a handmade pink and blue mug that is shaped sorta like a nuclear cooling tower. It holds a lot. However, its main claim to fame is that I have used it at least weekly since 1985.
Mine is a brown handmade ceramic mug made in a style vaguely evocative of Native American pottery. Given to me when I was a little kid by my big sis as a Christmas present after she went off to college. Handmade by AN ARTIST! I spent my childhood thinking that meant, y’know, a working artist. After spending a year as an art major, I realized it meant “bought for a couple bucks at an end-of-semester craft sale from a stressed-out art student”
Didn’t make me like it one ounce less.
Mine says “rebel againt the god” from the anime angel beats. The thing i like is that it came with a lid which is nice for when going up and down stairs.
It’s the company where I started working as a “lab tech, weekend shift” and ended being part of the team that implemented SAP. Their HR department sucked (specially their dependency on a certain migration lawyer with plumber-like sales techniques) but the immense majority of the company was great people.
It was bought by Dow a few years ago so, although the brand’s still in place, the company is simply not quite the same, nor will it ever be.
My favorite coffee cup depicts a group of naked Greek males, using sticks to roll a hoop; I have no idea where they are rolling it to but I suspect it depicts an athletic competition of some sort.
On the bottom, my favorite coffee cup says “Made in China” along with some Chinese characters that I can’t read.
I bought it from a museum gift shop; IIRC I bought it in Tampa. At the time I bought it, the museum was holding a special exhibit of Greek art and artifacts.