This question is for everyone.
I severely damaged my Gary Larson's The Far Side coffee mug that features a mass murderer being admonished for high caffeine intake.
I'm on a spiritual quest or RPG campaign, for a new mug - something completely different. There's only a couple billion ones to choose from, so I will start keeping my eyes set on LASER SCAVENGER mode.
(Maybe I will steal one from an attorney's office or police detective's desk. Right about now, you may be wondering where I got the Far Side mug.)
My question:
What is your favorite / long time used coffee / hot tea vessel? And any interesting stories related to a particular mug would be interesting to read.
I haven’t drank coffee in close to 30 years so I seldom use a coffee cup except to keep sharpies, pens, pencils and a pair of blunt scissors.
I’d post a picture of my favorite coffee cup but I have no idea where it is. It was a manly sized white cup with a graphic on it that resembled a multi shaded green coding sheet with witty sayings coded on it using statements like a COBOL program. I got this while assigned as a programmer analyst in the Air Force and used it for the first 10 years of my career at NASA until I quit drinking coffee.
There were probably 20 statements, one I remember off the top of my head read something like this: If builders-built-buildings-the-way-programmers-write-programs, the-first-woodpecker-that-came-along-would-destroy-civilization.
I hope I find it someday. It’s probably stuffed with a bunch of pens that say “Property - US Government”.
Which reminds me of another question I never had answered. Unlike popular belief these pens didn’t just come in black ink, although those were the most prevalent. We had boxes of black, blue and red ink government pens.
Each box was printed “Houston Lighthouse for the Blind” or “National Institute for the Blind”.
Who tested the pens to know which ones went in which box?
Sometime in the mid 80’s several of the aerospace companies began buying cups that had graphics on them that would change colors based on the temperature. I had some cool ones with the space shuttle that would show the flames from the main engines and SRBs only when filled with hot coffee. One by one these bit the dust after being put in a microwave.
p.s. yes. The coffee cup was encoded with keypunch font.
