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Huia
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I have just been given a Winnie-the Pooh mug which shows Pooh and Piglet picking flowers, with the caption "some friends are smaller than others". The same person has given me other literary themed mugs, including one showing Maurice Sendak's "Wild Things" in the middle of their wild rumpus and one celebrating Jane Austen's Persuasion. Of course I also have a Ship of Fools mug too ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Do your favourite mugs say something about your interests? Hobbies? tastes? or maybe have a witty saying on them?
Huia
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My favourite mug holds two UK pints (2.4 US pints, or a bit more than 1.1 litres). It certainly says something about my interest in drinking large quantities of tea.
It does have some words and artwork on it, but I have long since forgotten what they are - it's the dimensions that count ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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You make me feel inadequate. My favourite tea mugs are only one pinters. My work one is a souvenir from Eurodisney and my home one a present from a relative which says "Cheers", I think.
A two pint mug must be nearly twice as heavy which is interesting. How many teabags are required?
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A large, white, bone china mug - perfect!
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I'm a big mug lover (if that's the right phraseology). A have a 'bat' one with "Bat's the way I like it" (I'm an injured bat carer in my spare time). I also have a very nice Bagpuss one (big fan!)as well as various ones bought from gift shops from places I've visited. When I visit my parents, I always get 'my' mug which is a Bangor University one. At work, my colleagues are very protective about their mug. People definitely see them as being more than a mere container of liquid.
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I guess my tea-serving habits really do say something about me compared to all the drinking vessels thus far mentioned...
I confirm all kinds of prejudices about my national stereotype by drinking tea from bone china cups and saucers (they don't hold that much but that's why one makes one's tea in a teapot). I find chonky mugs too heavy.
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Have to disagree with you about the 'chonky mugs' - absolutely love the phrase though!
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When I was a teenager my Dad had a bone china cup and he used to complain about us 4 kids draining the pot so he couldn't have a second cup. Poor man was outnumbered.
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At work, a great big brown barrel shaped mug my parents bought me back in the '70s. I'd be really upset if it got broken.
At home, we have a selection of mugs (including a Ship of Fools mug, of course). My favouring is probably the one that has 'Life without dogs? I don't think so' on it, although sadly our lives have been without dogs for a while.
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I'm not sure why, but I really like the clear glass mugs - the finer the lip or edge, the better. I'm lucky if I can make one last for more than a few months though as I regularly smash them to smithereens. I do have a much heavier one right now and have succeeded in keeping it for quite some time. It is fairly large and heavier than I would like.
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I take three different mugs into work on rotation - a Bayeaux Tapestry mug, showing my interest in medieval history, a mug decorated with books because I work in a bookshop, and one labelled The High Council of Timelords with the Seal of Rassilon on the side because I'm a Whovian.
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I have a one-pint tea mug, labeled in large letters: MUG of TEA.
That's to make sure visiting coffee drinker never use it!
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Originally posted by Yonatan:
(I'm an injured bat carer in my spare time).
I hope you soon recover.
My favourite mug is one my wife bought for me. It has a picture of a donkey and the legend "Nice Ass, shame about the hairy legs." Fits in with my web personality.
(I have a ITTWACW mug as well, but don't we all?)
These are perfect for coffee.
My "Brainiac" mug (holds 1.5 pints) is for soup.
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Tea has to be from a bone china cup or mug.
I have a coffee cup which is my current favourite. It shows a woman in bed and the words 'All the coffee in Colombia won't make me a morning person.'
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We have a lot of mugs- we have a lot of trade mugs and also souvenir mugs from places we have visited. In fact, we have well over 100, stacked at least two high and 3 deep in a cupboard in the kitchen, as well as rhe mugs on cup hooks under the cupboard! I use my works mug as a bit of evangelism - it looks like the Coca Cola advert but actually says "Jesus Christ - He's the real thing", but I don't think anyone's really noticed. I have a second one in work - "Dial M for Merthyr", one of the Taffywood designs, which Darllenwr gave me Christmas time.
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As an American coffee drinker, I'm all about the big, chunky mug. I've got several from various organizations I've been a part of, including Pentecostals for Social Justice. My favorites include one w/ Wallace & Grommit and one with a Far Side cartoon of a building labeled "crisis center" on fire and floating downstream over a waterfall-- I use that one at work.
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I have a heavy stoneware kug from Germany. It has the usual marking on it for 0.5L so I know the quantity of tea I drink. They call it a beer stein in Canada, but it is a teatotaller. It has a picture of a castle near where my relatives live.
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A lot of the above mugs sound as if they should be properly termed flagons. Or baths.
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My favourites, in order are: a scrabble mug, cat mug, music mug, ship of fools mug. Guess that says it all.
I bought Mr. C. a 'Grumpy old man' mug for Christmas, which he uses with pride. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Originally posted by Firenze:
A lot of the above mugs sound as if they should be properly termed flagons. Or baths.
IVs are my preference.
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I have numerous drinking vessels for a multitude of uses and moods. Cocoa requires something big and curvy, china for company and merchandise mugs for everyday. Current favourite is my "I found this humerus" mug with a picture of the appropriate bone. I also have a couple of Simon Drew designs, including Moses exclamation at the parting of the Red Sea ("What do you mean, it's too muddy?").
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At home I use a mug from Finland which is just like the ones my dear friends have, except mine is in dark blue. If I'm sick, and making great quantities of herbal tea, I use my 600 ml mug from Scotland that my BFF got for me. It has 'Scotland' in large, friendly letters and a picture of a bagpiper, which is a special joke on me.
At w*rk, I use my Leipzig mug or my Disney Star Wars mug which was a gift from one of my piano padawans.
It is so difficult to keep my mug collection manageable. I am jj, and I am a mugaholic.
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At work I use the same mug I bought when I started my PhD - I'm not the world's biggest tea fan, and never drink coffee, but do find a good hot brew helps get me through the day. It's blue with big dots, and cost 99p from Woolworths. Still going strong (the mug, not Woolworths).
At home I have a number of mugs and tend to pick up whichever's the nearest. But my favourite I think is one I bought in Sibiu in 2007 when it was European City of Culture. It's just the right weight and size and thickness (I do prefer my mugs to be chunkier).
I've noticed that when my in-laws come to visit they always gravitate towards the Solas and Greenbelt mugs. Whereas my parents just gravitate towards the kettle - the mug is a secondary consideration I think!
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We have a biggish selection of 'special' mugs - souvenirs, SoF, and works mugs - but drink out of standard kitchen mugs.
However - at a church fete many years ago some kind person gave a collection of about 80 assorted mugs and another 25 - 30 turned up as well. There really isn't much demand for second-hand mugs unless they're pretty special so we set the stall up as a tombola. Mrs TonyK worked as a cook in a nursing home at the time and was given 3 branded pottery teapots. These, with mugs advertising sweets or soups into which we put the appropriate contents were 'star' prizes which were won with tickets ending in zero. Even number tickets won a mug; odd numbers won a bag containing 5 teabags. Ticket cost 20p.
It was very popular - rather more so than we thought and raised much more money than we could have made just by selling them.
We called it - A Mug's Game! We have used the theme again, with variations, whenever we've collected sufficient mugs!
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Back in the days when I left my mug in works kitchen I bought one that said "Jesus the real thing" mug with the red and white coca cola branding on.
No it was not attempt to evangelise
I just wanted to discourage others from using my mug after they took to breaking them.
It worked!
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Sounds like a lot of fun Jengie John.
My work mug was a Ship of Fools See You in Heaven mug. That went missing. I then took my See You in Hell mug in and it went missing too.
I now have a blue plastic mug with a lid at work which keeps tea warm through an entire morning surgery.
I try to give visitors appropriate mugs. One of my friends picked "You'll always be my friend; you know too much." for herself.
Cattyish, happy tea addict.
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My oldest sister once had a very unusual mug. It had a fake cockroach in it, glued to one side about halfway up. It was hilarious until you forgot that it was in there and innocently picked it up! Several people nearly had heart attacks and I think the mug finally got broken when somebody flung it across the room...
I have a solid white mug with the words "Impulse Marketing" on it. I like the mug because it's hefty. I wish it didn't say "Impulse Marketing" on it, however, as I got fired from that very company. I also am quite keen on a mug my wife gave me several years ago. It depicts a family of bears getting presents from Santa Claus on Christmas morning. So lifelike! Bears in sweaters and pants! Anyway, it too is a hefty mug and wonderful for my coffee. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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My favorite mug was one like this one that says "I like my coffee to sit up and bark." "Urf!"
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I have numerous bone china mugs with lovely bird designs on them, which I use for visitors. My current favourite mug, though is made if zhizha clay. It has a carp design carved into it, with a separate lid. The handle od the lid is a beautifully modelled carp. Not sure how to link from a tablet, but I'll try to find a picture. My work mug is a Tardis.
Fish mug (hopefully)
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Outside I drink from a plain white enamel mug that I have had since my scouting days or a stainless steel mashcan that I got while in the OTC. Inside I use a plain white Wedgewood tea service. I have a coffee service to match for when I absolutely have to serve the filthy stuff. Woe betide anyone who doesn't use a saucer. Plain, functional and easily replaceable should the barbarian hordes descend.
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My favourite mug has written on it - Chaos, Panic and Disorder, My Work Here Is Done. And that just about sums me up really.
We do seem to have a lot of mugs and have given some of them early retirement in a box in the attic.
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I have a Religious Ed. teacher's mug:
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Taoism: Shit Happens
Hinduism: This shit has happened before
Confucianism: Confucius say, "Shit happens"
Buddhism: It is only an illusion that shit happens
Zen: What is the sound of shit happening?
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah
Agnosticism: Maybe shit happens, and maybe not
Protestantism: Shit won't happen if I work harder
Catholicism: If shit happens, I deserve it
Judaism: Why does shit always happen to me?
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One of my sons brought me back a present from Switzerland, a mug with a cow glued to the bottom inside, so as you drink his head peeps through the liquid. But that isn't half so scary as the time I was given a drink and discovered a frog at the bottom!
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I generally use heavy Denby mugs as they hold a lot of tea but in the afternoon I often have a pot and a cup from my collection of mismatched roses china.
For years my work mug was a cartoon one i'd got as a present which said 'when I grow up I want to be a nurse...so I can help people and see loads of willies'. But some other nurse nicked it.
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My original favourite was a mug saying 'Usually I'm thin and gorgeous. But today is my day off'. Trouble is, I liked it so much it got chipped too easily. Soon there were more chips than a Friday night takeaway and I had to ditch it. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I have one from the Oakland Museum of California that I particularly like. It has their logo on one side, and the other side says, "Is it art?"
It was referring to a particular exhibit they had, where visitors would vote with different colored tickets for yes and no on whether three similarly-shaped items were art: a clod of straw flowers, with its root system intact; a very practical basket clearly made for use; and a very impractical basket clearly made to be an art piece. There were plexiglas containers for the tickets in front of each one, so you could see the colors and get a feel for how people had voted. (I voted "no," "yes," and "yes," respectively. I've studied these things.)
I like the mug in general, too. It's in my current facebook profile picture (I'm sipping cocoa from it).
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My favourite is a Dandy Lines bone china mug with a pig on each side.
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I bought a mug for my manager recently because it really made me giggle.
Plain white mug that said:
'And yet, despite the look on my face, you're still talking.'
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Firenze
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Trouble with message mugs, the joke tends to wear out before the mug does. We have one (present) with a picture of a small animal in a kilt, and the legend 'Mole of Kintyre'. Ho ho. Once.
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I gave away the pretty china cups and saucers that I'd collected in my youth for my box/bottom drawer/hope chest 'cos we only ever drink out of mugs. Various pottery ones – I got keen on pottery when it was always earth tones and lost interest when potters started going for bright colours.
So I have a curvy brown mug for hot chocolate, so curvy that I have to tip my head right back to drain it, but it's quite thin pottery so less clunky that its mates.
But for tea all day it's my Dunoon bone china mug decorated with a fishing village scene.
I have some larger heavier curvy mugs but somehow I've progressed from large to smaller servings of tea.
Giving up on cup-and-saucer sets means accumulating small pottery plates for putting your bikkie on – they too have disappeared in natural colours, but I have enough to go on with.
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I have three one-pint clear glass mugs: they are great for beer, ale or cider. My wife gave them to me.
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I have a splendid mug from Nippon Telephone Corporation: when the base is exposed to light - a minimal amount will do it - it produces a wonderful (!) tinny-sounding rendition of Schubert's Ave Maria ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Since the term "beaker" is used at the Bucket residence (pronounced Boo-kay and my source for all things fashionable ) my current favorite mug is one in the form of a glass lab beaker with handle and with a measurement scale (up to 350 ml) printed on the side.
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I have quite a few Chinese mugs with an infuser inside and a lid. The lid does keep it fairly warm - great when pottering round the garden
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ArachnidinElmet
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Trouble with message mugs, the joke tends to wear out before the mug does. We have one (present) with a picture of a small animal in a kilt, and the legend 'Mole of Kintyre'. Ho ho. Once.
This sounds not dissimilar to my mug featuring a rodent in a tea cup, entitled 'Nostradormouse'.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by L'organist:
I have a splendid mug from Nippon Telephone Corporation: when the base is exposed to light - a minimal amount will do it - it produces a wonderful (!) tinny-sounding rendition of Schubert's Ave Maria
I'm coming round your house to steal that.
My husband has a habit of cherishing mugs I loathe. There's the one with ducks I bought 40 years ago, and which has survived while legions of much nicer mugs have broken. And the one from Lanzarote with an inset sculpture of the volcano imp.
Btw, the way to ramp up your collection is to marry at a mature age. Friends know you don't need major household stuff, but feel they should give you something useful....
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Longest-living of my mugs: 50p - for two! = in Woolworths, horrible colour, went with nothing I ownedm bought in desperation. When dropped they refused to crack or chip.
Eventually retired to outdoor and DIY duty only, they're still going strong with the friend I gifted them to - they've even survived a force 8 broach going into St Peter Port...
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Firenze
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It's always the cheap, horrible ones that will bounce off granite. Why can't they use that stuff to make the nice ones?
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70s smoked glass - lasts forever
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Originally posted by Crazy Cat Lady:
70s smoked glass - lasts forever
But when it does go it explodes!
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"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge
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