# What's on your coffee mug?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974>\
**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:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/41 "2000-01-21T17:48:00Z")

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Omigod, Ike, did you ever DRINK Moxie? My college roomie was a Moxie junkie, and we sometimes took weekend road-trips up to New England, the only place you can buy the swill in bulk. It kinda tastes like what I imagine cat pee would taste like (not that I would know). “The Bitter Soft Drink of General Yen.”

Oh, my coffee mug says, SECAUCUS: MY KIND OF TOWN," with a graphic design of palm trees. Slays me.

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**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/42 "2000-01-21T17:48:00Z")

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My mug at my previous job was white with red letters that read "MARKSMANSHIP-"You don’t hurt 'em if you don’t hit “em”-Chesty Puller USMC.

## I gave it to the new tech,a former marine. (who was in fact the tech who trained me, then quit to look for more money. They THREW money at him to come back as no one there had the slightest idea how to do my job)

“The universe doesn’t give first warnings or second chances”

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/43 "2000-01-21T19:15:00Z")

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Eve: Nope, I’ve never actually swallered the stuff. I just like the IDEA of Moxie, being an old MAD magazine buff.

Didn’t we do a thread devoted to Moxie last summer sometime?

I bought the mug in Damariscotta, Maine, a lovely little town just off U.S. Route 1 which is now Moxie ground zero.

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Uke

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/44 "2000-01-21T22:24:00Z")

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I don’t actually drink coffee, so none of the mugs my wife and I own is really “my” coffee mug. But I did acquire the weirdest, ugliest coffee mug you’re likely to ever see:

Working as a temp for the local branch of Blue Cross Blue Shield, I got a chance to get a free coffee mug that some health vender was passing out. It bears the logo of Fragmin®, evidently some sort of medicine for the treatment of … varicose veins. It also has a picture of a leg with, and I’m **not** kidding, big ugly black lines all over it. But you haven’t heard the best part yet! The black parts of the mug are somehow temperature sensitive; you put hot liquid in the mug, and gradually the black lines disappear! No more varicose veins, plus you can read the ad copy that was previously hidden under the black background. I wonder how they did that.

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**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/45 "2000-01-21T23:04:00Z")

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I got a bunch of 'em, and use 'em as the mood suits.

Currently holding Most Favored Mug status is my Straight Dope/Signorino “Coffee Mug” mug. Yes, I’m a bootlicker.

I also have a translucent blue mug with the Baseball Hall of Fame logo on it. Usually used during Spring Training and the Playoff Season.

There is also the black mug with “What A Guy!” printed on it in white. Given to me by a friend who thought I was.

Then there’s the Big D mug. Larger than average, chunky, white. Has a big black “D” on it. It’s Dad’s Mug. Don’t mess with it.

I have lots of others, but don’t use them that much. I just collect them.

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The Dave-Guy  
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx

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**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/46 "2000-01-22T01:10:00Z")

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Oh, and my mother has a mug that reads:

## Yes, I’m middle aged, but I’ll grow out of it.

\>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\<

—The dragon observes

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**Author:** ![special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-on-your-coffee-mug/12974/47 "2000-01-22T01:47:00Z")

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oh, jees, inertia, it took me a few beats to get that ‘big porcelain mug w/ the refill button’. lllll0l

&, crackwise, if there were a “legitimate place like that in florida”, the entire universe would be turned upside down because that one spot would be the place physics didn’t work. helllooo? it’s an optical illusion.

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