Stalking T-Rex skeleton in poison green on a black background, from the American Museum of Natural History. Yeah, I STILL love dinosaurs. So?
I have soooo many coffee mugs. I only use two, but that’s because now I actually have my own pot at my cubicle. One is stainless steel and rubber from Starbucks-merry Christmas to me from GF-and the other is my favorite. It’s a huge cappucino style mug that has Dogbert on it. He’s whistling as he walks away from a smashed 'puter. The caption is classic:
“The network’s down, but I am feeling a lot better!”
I highly reccomend that all you caffeine addicts get a pot at your desk. That’s what I did and now there is not a drop of blood in my java system. Noonch.
“And on the eighth day, God Created beer
to prevent the Irish from taking over
the Earth.”
~SNOOGANS~
Well I have two…one with the name of the nuclear power plant where I work with the little nuclear symbol on it…the other my best friend gave me and it has on it “Welcome to 40, The Decade From Hell” if I had known how true those words were I would have probably hit her with it when I opened it
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
I hve many mugs, but here are my favorites:
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Set of four with wolves on it (I’m a wolf lover.)
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One that say’s “All I want out of life is world peace, universal understanding and $50,000 a year” Course I have been tempeted to change that to $150,000 a year.
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This one’s a sexist one “Coffee, chocolate, men, somethings are just better when they are rich”
I have many, and I like most of them. However, my two favorites are:
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The Fuzzy Duck Coffee Shop. Coffee shop in the town of my Alma Mater, Morehead State University.
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A “Shoebox Greetings” mug I picked up at a Hallmark store. It says in scrawled lettering, "Just Bring Me My Coffee and A Doughnut and the SLOWLY BACK AWAY.
Lets see, my usual one says " Just Bring Me My Coffee and a Doughnut and then SLOWLY BACK AWAY" It was a Christmas gift. My backup is a “Neil Young Solo” cup I bought at a concert.
You have a Mystery House in Michigan? I thought the one in black rock canyon, Montana was the only one! Is it a franchise? Let me guess, there’s a building sitting at an odd angle and when you go inside gravity is all messed up? My dad swears there’s a “vortex” there, good thing it’s close to the road in a tourist area or they wouldn’t get much business. The one in Montana changed its billboards, not making any claims about abnormal gravity and just calling it a fun house. They must have had complaints.
there used to be a mystery spot (same thing) in the wisconin dells & another in knottsberry farm near disneyland. what happens is that they take away all visual clues by having you go along some winding paths that block you from seeing level land. the inside of the house is all at a slight angle that you don’t notice any more. it’s a big optical illusion, but very effective & fun.
A gift from my former staff; it’s a very simple, almost Art Deco design with “Fearless Leader” emblazond across it.
Umm…in joke there. I trust all you Rocky & Bullwinkle fans remember that the deformed and evil boss of Boris and Natasha was named simply “Fearless Leader”.
Brrring me moooose and squirrrelll!
Veb
Home:
Company logo, and a pencil-sketch-looking rendering of a DNA double helix (I currently work for a biopharmecutical company).
Work:
The logo of the TV station I used to work for until I decided they weren’t paying me enough to do all that stuff.
Pardon my typos…bad ice skating accident last night…harmed the mouse hand that I rely on for graphics…have to carefully read through all my posts for a while first eh?
Poor TechChick! Hope your mouse hand feels better soon. (Those triple-axels are a bear, aren’t they?) Pour a hot toddy your favorite mug, snuggle in and don’t sweat the typos. As long as you keep adding that “eh?” on the end you’ll charm the socks off of the SDers.
Veb
It depends.
I live alone so mostly I use a mug I had made up which says in big black letters ‘FUCK OFF! It’s TOO early.’
In my home office by my little coffee maker, I have one I use when on-line which says ‘MINE!’
When guests are over, I have this cool, clear glass mug a friend made for me, on which he hand etched with a glass grinder, the VERY nice form of a VERY well developed nude girl. (WOW!) 
When writing and deep in thought, I have a mug from NASA. (Hard to get.)
Mine is a 16 oz steel “mug”. (Well, thats what Wilson-Armetal(sp?) seems to think it is)(everyone else calls it a stein). I love it. Sure it means i have to drink my coffee cold, but i get to drink 16 oz at a time.
(talk about a coffee junky)
Let’s see. At work I have a mug with lighthouses of the NC Outer Banks on it. Which is nice…at least that way I can always identify it in the kitchen.
At home…I have too many coffee mugs to describe them all. Got a couple of Dilbert ones from the roomie, an Elvis mug (my parents live in Memphis…it’s required), a mug with a picture of James Dean, a mug from my college, and my favorite, a mug that says “Drink yer Java - it’s a jungle out there.”
“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!” - Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
Oh, I have so many coffee cups. The best one is a hand made cup from the art school at the university where my Mom used to work. She used to send me a new cup at the end of every semester. So several of mine are originals. My stepson gave me a HUGE Donald Duck cup that says “grumpy to the last drop” - I’m not getting any more laid back I guess. My favorite in college was the slanted cup that says “the Morning After Mug.”
About the Mystery Spot. There is a legitimate place like that in Florida (can’t remember where) that has been studied. Cars, balls, etc. seem to roll uphill.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
– a Celtic motto
Ernst Munsch’s “The Scream”. Kind of says it all.
The trouble with Sir Launcelot is by the time he comes riding up, you’ve already married King Arthur.
Well, have several mugs, I don’t drink coffee, but I like to have them for soup or tea.
- A caracature of J.R.R.Tolkien on it.
- Like Padeyes, except mine is of my brothers squadren, VS-38, The Red Griffins.
- My Xicor mug, (Current Co. not really a coffee mug, but is great for cokes.)
- Old orchard beach in maine.
- Babylon-5 Mug.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
Well, hhhmmmmm, let me see, looks like it says “Molson Cana…” wait this isn’t a mug. Does that mean this isn’t coffee?
“Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair…”
Tom Waits
I have a giant, white porcelain mug that I drink from. The neat thing about it is that if I run out of water, there’s a chrome refill button right on the top.
I’ve got another one at work.
Everything looks better in black and white – Paul Simon
My “Watergate Hotel” mug went home to enjoy its new life as a shaving mug, so now my work mug is also an advertisement for a soft drink: it reads “Old Fashion [sic] MOXIE.”
My backup (in case of guests) is a promotional mug we had made up a few years back for a Donald E. Westlake novel called KAHAWA. “Kahawa” is Swahili for “coffee,” although Westlake claims it’s Swahili for “We couldn’t think of a title.”
Uke