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09 June 2005
C'mon...don't be shy....show us your mug! Isn't it about time? I'll go first. Here's mine .
I have beside me a lipstick-stained Kermit the Frog mug which was given to me on Christmas Day, 1981 by my favourite brother. No pictures, though - it's shy.
No camera at work, but I alternate between a metal portable french press mug (mmmmmmm.....good coffee rather than the industrial office "coffee") and a beat-to-crap Superchunk mug that I just can't retire.
I have a mug that I picked up from the Fisher chemical company stand at a product fair. It has the MSDS for caffeine printed on it. It makes my geeky scientific heart fairly sing with joy when I look at it.
I have a 12-oz lidded travel cup that Amazon.com sent me in about 1996 - back when they were so glad to have customers that they would send you all kinds of free stuff just for buying a book. It's been my default "jobsite water glass" ever since, and is sitting next to me right now. Sorry no photo.
My coffee mug is an 11 oz glass beer mug. It was given to me 15 years ago, by friends who visited Matt's microbrewery. The mug says "Matt's", which is appropriate because that is my name.
It is also a little cool to drink coffee at work from a beer mug, no?
My mug is blue. No picture possible at this time, but just take my word for it: standard blue mug.
Also, I feel dorky for asking (I'd like to think that I'm moving out of newbiedom in the Meta world), but what's the joke with the "Coffee is for Closers" mug?
"Coffee is for closers" is the best line Alec Baldwin has ever delivered. It's from Glengarry Glen Ross and was one of those things that, until the internet, I thought only myself and a few friends quoted. "You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you."
Got this as a gift; it really confuses people when I bring it to meetings. My explanation is: "I just want to make sure everybody's clear on my stance towards ninjas."
Very cool mugs! LeeJay, for some reason, I was expecting to see a mug with Fozzie Bear from The Muppets on it, and when I saw The Fonz, I thought you had linked to the wrong mug...hah.
I definitely have to get the ninja mug, just so I can say "I just want to make sure everybody's clear on my stance towards ninjas". I can't wait to say that out loud.
A Fozzie mug would be pretty sweet. I like this one because it has "Wocka Wocka Wocka" on the inside rim but the actual Fozzie looks...odd. I think it's his body posture. He looks sort of like an overwhelmed streetwalker in a bear costume.
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