# What's on your coffee mug? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974 "2000-01-20T19:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/1 "2000-01-20T19:29:00Z")
Truly mundane. Yet for some a form of expression. Here at work I have two-A black one with a picture of Malificent(evil fairy,WD Sleeping Beauty). On the other side it says "I look good in black-it matches my mood. The other has a gradual progression of Snoopy and Woodstock laughing around it. Starting with a snicker ending with full blown HA!HA!'s This is all too embarrassing-My mug at home is a Duran Duran mug. So, what holds your coffee or tea? * * * Then Holley held Miss Spider’s hand… I’ll say no more, you understand. For private moments between spiders Should not be witnessed by outsiders. -David Kirk- Miss Spider’s Wedding ---
**Author:** ![renaissanceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@renaissanceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/renaissanceman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/2 "2000-01-20T19:35:00Z")
My wife gave me the one I use at work, for my birthday about 3 years ago. It says: “40 is not old - if you’re a tree.” ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/3 "2000-01-20T19:35:00Z")
You mean you haven’t yet bought your [Straight Dope Coffee Mug?](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat#mug) For Shame! ## Pimping for the site brought to you by the Ed Zotti Fan Club. Est. 1-00. Livin’ on Tums, vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/4 "2000-01-20T19:36:00Z")
Mine mug is hand-fired clay. It’s grey with brown flecks and has a blue watercolor rectangle overlapping a green watercolor rectangle with a drawing of a coffee cup ‘n’ saucer and the words “Sister Sludge.” **Sister Sludge** is a small coffee shop in the building next to mine. It’s run by triplet sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/5 "2000-01-20T19:44:00Z")
Well, one of them is the “vi reference mug.” [http://www.geekcheat.com/](http://www.geekcheat.com/) Then I have another one shaped like a borg from Star Trek. (Can you guess what my profession is?) Finally, the one I use the most at work is a **big** mug with Warner Bros. characters. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/6 "2000-01-20T19:44:00Z")
My work coffee/tea/water cup is an insulated mug that [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) sent me a couple years ago. I figured that was a sign I spent too much money there. But it’s a cool mug. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/7 "2000-01-20T19:51:00Z")
To be an inconspicuous coffe drinker at work, I use one with our logo and name on it. At home, however, my favorite is my big, blue mug in the shape of the Genie’s head from Alladin. I also use a mug I got for donating blood, black with American Red Cross or something like that. * * * “It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.” ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/8 "2000-01-20T19:51:00Z")
Mine is from the Mystery Spot in St Ignace! That place is spooky! 😛 * * * -Frankie Lack of charisma can be fatal ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/9 "2000-01-20T19:57:00Z")
The Mystery Spot? In California? The one with all the billboards? What the Hell is that place about, anyway? I lived in CA for five years, always saw the billboards and have always wondered. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/10 "2000-01-20T19:57:00Z")
Looks like dried coffee. Mmm, plus something green and furry near the handle. * * * Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/11 "2000-01-20T20:31:00Z")
A real geek doesn’t need a vi reference but I might get one anyway. I try to keep a rotation. I have one with my old navy sqadron’s logo - a two tailed, left handed tomcat and the motto “anytime baby.” One with the NYC police department logo, and a green one with Arizona FAA (family assistance administration) from when my mom worked for the food stamp department. Right now I’m using one I got with a Kahlúa gift set. ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/12 "2000-01-20T20:35:00Z")
At work I used a Highlander: The TV series mug (unashamed HL geek here). At home I use a nice big mug with a picture of a cheetah on it. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/13 "2000-01-20T20:40:00Z")
I mostly forgo my nice matched sets in favor of my Coca-cola coffee cup, or the one that has a picture of Bowen and my little cousin Cody on it. * * * “…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.” ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/14 "2000-01-20T20:48:00Z")
## I’ve got 4, with no pictures. Just words and logos [list][li]Mesa State College (my alma mater)[/li][li]AE Transfer Program w/ the US Navy Seal (which looks like an eagle :)) This is a project I worked on at my first job[/li][li]CMIS, a computer program I worked on at my second job[/li][li]A Lockheed-Martin mug w/ logo (current job)[/li] Judges 14:9 - So [Samson] scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion. ---
**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/15 "2000-01-20T21:00:00Z")
no mug. antique, porcelain, footed cup & saucer, handpainted w/ several pieces of fruit–what you might imagine a teacup would look like. people regularly comment when i go downstairs for coffee about how civilized it looks. whenever i do break one, i have a half dozen more at home of different sorts. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/16 "2000-01-20T21:33:00Z")
“Stress is for people who actually care.” – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/17 "2000-01-20T21:35:00Z")
Stains… also the D.A.R.E logo which is a Drug and Alcohol awareness program for teen agers. Its mega big so I dont have to run back and forth to the pot so many times. * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Steelwhip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@Steelwhip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steelwhip)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/18 "2000-01-20T21:39:00Z")
Mine plugs a soft drink. “Enjoy Mello Yello” ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/19 "2000-01-20T21:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Canthearya: > **The Mystery Spot? In California? The one with all the billboards? What the Hell is that place about, anyway? I lived in CA for five years, always saw the billboards and have always wondered.** What I can’t hear you?? I’m just kidding Cant. I have until now resisited the urge to say that. Anyway, no its in St.Ignace just north of the Mackinaw Bridge in Yooper Land, Michigan! And its a cool place where gravity is all messed up for one reason or another…I could tell you all more but, then it wouldn’t be a mystery huh?? I definatly recommend it for shits and giggles if nothing else! * * * -Frankie Lack of charisma can be fatal ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/20 "2000-01-20T22:43:00Z")
I have two favorites; one with Mickey Mouse in black tie and tails surrounded by the words PIZAZZ, and then the definition: pizazz(pi zaz)n. vigor, style, flair, etc. the other a porcelain mug hand-painted with irises in a Van Gogh style that my good friend painted for me. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974.md?page=2)