What does your favorite coffee cup look like? And why is it your favorite

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Mine have varied over the years.

The FBI CUP: First, it was an FBI cup. We never did get a chance to do the D.C. tour of the FBI building years ago, because they closed the tours early the day we were there, but they were nice enough to let us in the souvenir shop. (It was at least six years pre 9/11) I liked the cup because I almost worked for the department when I was in my late twenties, but I didn't continue with the interview process because I decided I wanted to start a family and was too old to give that kind of career the full attention it deserved. So the cup represented the road not taken until, poetically one day, hubby accidentally broke the cup when he opened the dish washer. He said it just fell out on its own. uh-huh.

The Jekyll and Hyde Cup: Then it was the Jekyll and Hyde souvenir cup. It was a remarkably enjoyable play and the concept of people having two sides to them is an observation that I was exploring at the time. Finally came up with a term to describe my observation, "Machiavelli Christians." Once I resolved the cognitive dissonance, I lost interest in the cup.

The National Archives Cup: I just got this one on my last family trip to D.C. I'm just damn proud that our country is established on some strong worded documents. It does sadden me, however, that those words are fading on the original documents, but maybe that's poetically appropriate given how the Right feel they can interpret the words in ways that weaken their meaning.

So, what's yours? :donut:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Mines from London

It has pictures of St. Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben and horse-drawn carriages. It was a gift from my daughters visit there last summer.

Prior to this one my favorite was one she made for me at the mall with her photo on it when she was 8 years old. Being 10 years old now and starting to show some signs of age I decided to retire that cup and save it to show her children some day.

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5. I wasn't drinking when I went to London.

At least not coffee. :-) Lovely place.

[Briarius]

2. Mine's a stainless steel cup

I acquired in Germany. :evilgrin:

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4. Why do the stainless steel coffee mugs I buy all say that they shouldn't

be cleaned in the dishwasher. If they're stainless steel, aren't they resistant to rust?

[Briarius]

11. no idea

I wash mine in the diswasher. I suppose if it's got a liner that could be why, but mine's not insulated so I don't worry about it

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12. Yes. They all have liners.

[Briarius]

13. I had one with a liner that came out

after I ran it through the dishwasher a couple times. It was free so it wasn't so bad. It was the kind with the plastic liner.

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14. Mystery solved.

Thanks. I've been hesitant to buy stainless steel because of that limitation, but I'll go for the 100% s/s now.

[teach1st]

3. Mine is from a student...

...who had substantial difficulties. The inscription: "You were like a father to me."

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6. You can't buy that one in a coffee shop.

That one you earn.

[murielm99]

7. Mine is a heavy old-style restaurant ware mug.

It is Sterling Vitrified China, with a backstamp that identifies it as made between 1939 and 1941.

I have had this mug since I was in college, in the sixties. It inspired me to become a collector of old restaurant ware mugs. I only use this one regularly, though. A cup of coffee is just not the same unless drunk from this mug.

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15. You're braver than I am.

I enjoy collecting things also, but I rarely use them every day because I'm a klutz.

[RetroLounge]

71. We use a set of Shenango Diner China

as our everyday stuff. I like the heavy feel of it...

RL

[baldguy]

8. My current one

I also used to use a Rumplemintz beer stein as a coffee mug at work - but someone broke it.

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10. I gave hubby the star trek one with the cloaking ship.

He doesn't use it anymore only because we're up to a two cup habit and have opted for larger cups.

[Mutley]

9. Mine is a little ivory colored cup

with a red stripe around the rim. Nothing fancy, but I love it! My old favorite was a huge soup bowl looking thing that was green. It got broken :cry:

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16. My sister and her husband have a whole pantry full of cracked cups.

Last time I visited them, I pulled them out of the cabinets to throw them away and my sister almost had a heart-attack. She said most of them belonged to her husband and were old cups used by his father or other relative. They actually use them cracked!

[Mutley]

26. Wow!

How do they keep the coffee from leaking out?

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29. Brings new meaning to the term, "Drip coffee."

:-)

[Mutley]

30. That it does.

:rofl:

[FLSurfer]

17. My favorite coffee cup is

from from Thermos.
Looks like this.


Very important feature is I can drink from any side, all around the top.
I had no idea others placed as much importance on their coffee cup as I do.

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23. The importance of a coffee cup.

A coffee cup is man's second best friend.

Do you wash that stainless steel cup in the dish washer?

[FLSurfer]

50. When it actually gets washed, it is in

the dishwasher.
Don't think it has ruined anything.

The cup is very cool, kinda like a real thermos.
Very good insulation.

Picked up a spare at Winn-Dixie the other day, on sale for $3.99.
I highly recommend them.

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53. Thanks for the tip.

[Lannes]

18. The same mug Ive had for 25 years since high school

Dont have the equipment to post it but it was one of those 70s pottery mugs.Never thought Id have it this long.It has a hairline crack so hopefully it will last!

It looks like this except its a traditional coffee mug with a silver strip in the middle instead of the blue stuff.

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24. I remember those.

Interesting to see how they've evolved. Now they have mountain elk or moose crafted in the design.

[Robb]

19. Mine has the Aspen Daily News cutline:

"If you don't want it printed, don't let it happen." :)

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25. Newspaper /News mugs make the best remembrance mugs.

My first and oldest mug was a mug from a daily news show in Youngstown, Ohio. I got it when I went to see my sister who went to school in Ohio and later worked there. It was thirty years old and I just gave it to her as a gift.

[Spirochete]

20. Mine's big on the bottom

and little on the top, made of green plastic. I can set it on the car seat while I'm driving.

[swag]

21. Here it is, sitting on a window ledge in an apartment I once inhabited

I like it because it's old restaurant ware from HLC, the Homer Laughlin China Company of Newell, WV (makers of Fiestaware). If you're ever out to Newell, I urge you to take the tour.

Its color, its fundamental frustum, and its smallness please me. Coffee looks and tastes better in it than in other cups.

[GalleryGod]

22. "West Wing" cup.

Bought it at the NBC store at Rockefeller Center, Christmas time 3 years ago.:loveya: It reminds me of what a Presidency used to be like.

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43. I confess.

I've only seen one West Wing show. You know, it's too realistic for me to get into. I use television for escapism.

[NightNurse]

55. Hey, Sweetie! That's MY cup!

:spank:

[LynzM]

27. Two favorites...

One for travelling, a freebie from my work, because it was the only large cup that fit in my old car, a Subaru.

The other is a super-heavy, diner-style mug, weighs about 1/2 a pound, with Green Mountain Coffee on it :)

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42. Those diner-style cups/mugs seem to be the predominant favorites

on this thread. Three diner cups vs. two who have green martian cups.

Any more green martian cup lovers out there before the thread closes?

[DrZeeLit]

28. Shiny dark blue, HOGWARTS SCHOOL coat of arms.. nice heft...

I got it way at the beginning of the Harry Potter thing.
I don't think they make 'em any more.
I have two. They just feel great in my hand, nice handle, good size.
I only make one cup of coffee every morning -- using a one cup gold filter over the cup. Works fine, exactly enough, no old coffee in a pot all day.

Mmmm.... mmmmm.... good. OH, and I use half/half -- my only vice.

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41. Someday I will actually read those Harry Potter stories.

No doubt your cup will turn out to be a great collectible if they don't make it anymore.

[DrZeeLit]

46. I love those books. They are pure escape. I usually read them again...

...every summer. Makes me think I'm on a beach with nothing but time on my hands. Takes me back to my youth. In a new way -- since they aren't books I read as a child. I guess that sounds weird, but to a person who loves books... it's just moi.

I'd recommend them. No heavy lessons, no weirdness...just fun.

[bicentennial_baby]

31. My Marvin the Martian cup!

It's a biiiig cup with Marvin on the side, holding his raygun.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

33. I've got this Marvin mug also, hard to clean out though!

[bicentennial_baby]

35. I like it!

I could wash it for ya, I got small hands! :P

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. USS Kitty Hawk mug.

It has this logo on it, it's a larger than normal mug. Bought it from the ship store during a brief deployment.
Just a source of memories from a happier, younger time. I'm drinking from it right now.

Followed by:

-Cambridge University mug with the logos of all the various colleges of Cambridge on it. Dad got for me during a visit there. Just very cool looking and classy.

-"Lieutenant" mug that is Navy blue (almost black) and has the gold LT stripes on top (same reasoning as above). Happy times when I was a LT.

-"Nuromax" mug, a Burroughs-Wellcome pharmaceutical rep freebie pimping a drug that I think pretty much no one uses any more. It's just cool because it has a logo of a human torso with a beating heart within it. I think one of the selling points of the drug was that it was supposed to have minimal effects on the cardiovascular system. I just think the logo looks cool. (on edit--Of course, the coffe that I drink out of it has SIGNIFICANT effects on my cardiovascular system!)

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40. Four favorite cups. You ARE a coffee drinker!

[scarlet_owl]

34. My mug has the Cheshire Cat on it.

[nuxvomica]

36. A collection of four Long John Silver's "tankards"

I got them in 1985. They are white porcelain with four different Normal Rockwell illustrations on them and the rims are trimmed in 24-carat gold. They're called the "Seafarers Collection". While I like the illustrations and all, the real reason they are my favorite is that coffee always tastes best when drunk from them and I don't know why. I probably shouldn't even be using them cuz some of the gold gets into my system at every draught.
However, I can't stand to drink green tea in them. For that beverage, my favorite is a handmade, iridescent glazed mug with the bas relief of a tree on the front. I got that at the Folk Arts Center in Ashville, NC, sometime in the '80s. Green tea always tastes best in that, again, for some unknown reason.

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39. Gold vs. lead glazed porcelain.

At least you know where your exposure is coming from. Imagine all of us who are drinking out of porcelain cups which may have lead in the glaze, and we don't know it.

[Lilith Velkor]

37. Irish National Stud

says mine, and it has a silhouette of a prancing horse. My mom was in Ireland on 9/11/01 and scheduled to fly back to DC the next day. She gave it to me when I picked her up at the airport on 9/22.

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38. So, is the mug suggesting equestrian or extra-curricular activity?

Never have heard of the Irish prancing horses.

[Lilith Velkor]

57. I wouldn't ask my mother a thing like that.

But now that you mention it, it is possible she is starting to take after me in her old age, and it may have been a sublimnal brag about getting a nice piece of the Emerald Isle. (Of all the places to be stuck overseas after a terrorist attack, that's one I would pick.)

I have my doubts, but if she did, good for her.

[Spacemom]

44. My Coffee Cup

My husband bought this cup for me. We have a large black travel mug that we were always arguing (in a playful way) over who got to use it because the rest of our cups were too small. He found this one for me so we'd both have large mugs.

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47. Definitely, large is the way to go.

[libodem]

45. darn, that reminds me I left mine at work and haven't seen it

for a while. It's extra-large and has cartoon cats and tall city buildings on it. It's just cute and it must be 'me' cuz someone at work said..oh, I could tell that was your cup because it looks like 'you'.

[fortyfeetunder]

48. A china mug from a Naval ship

It's huge (2.5 cups) so I make a big pot of coffee and sip all morning. I bought a second one just in case I lose this one unexpectedly....

[Debbi801]

49. Mine is from Disney World...

It is a little larger than the "standard" coffee cup. It is a dark pink on the inside and has Walk Disney World written in a white script near the top of the inside. The outside has scenes from all 4 parks as well as all the famous and not so famous characters from various films. It is semi 3-dimensional in that the monorail and other items are sculpted out from the actual cup a little bit.

My other favorite is actually several---they are hand thrown pottery mugs that we buy every year at the local Renn Faire.

[yorgatron]

51. mine is shaped like a Stromberg 97 carburetor

http://www.verntardel.com/catalog/unnecessary.html

[Xipe Totec]

52. STS-1 Commemorative Cup

Shuttle STS-1 Columbia Mission patch on one side, Mission Control on the other.

From my glory days.

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54. O.K. I'm impressed.

[u4ic]

56. I don't remember where I picked this one up:

but I had to buy it, even though I rarely have use for cups (don't drink coffee, and rarely tea). This is the picture on it:

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61. That was a good laugh. THanks.

[XemaSab]

58. Mug I got from

Taylor's Coffee Emporium.

Cop/Freeper hangout in Sacramento. Got it as a gag gift for my mom, but she hasn't got a well developed sense of irony, so the mug (and the irony) fell to me.

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62. Very scary to think that our cops probably consist of a good share

of freepers.

[XemaSab]

67. These people aren't just freepers

They're white supremacist types. Not young skinheads, but older anti-immigration freaks.

When the synagogue fires happened in Sacto, the FBI did a lot of questioning of thse folks.

[peacefreak]

59. I have two favorites.

One with Mighty Mouse that says "The Original Hunk" & one with different suns. Runner-up, South of the Border.

[SarahB]

60. It's red and says "mom" with hearts all over it.

:loveya:

[youspeakmylanguage]

63. My matte-black Calvin Klein porcelain mug...

It's so Michael Mann that it hurts. I love it.

[tenshi816]

64. Mine's from Steamboat Springs, Colorado

and has cowboys with skis on it.

A really smart liberal cowboy who can also ski well is my idea of the perfect man!

(BTW, when I use the word cowboy, I don't mean a certain faux brush-clearing Connecticut-born one who's scared of horses.)

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69. I wonder why do people think that cowboys are right-wing?

I imagine it has to do with property right. So a skiing cowboy must have managed to get off the range and opened up his horizons.

[Felix Mala]

65. Keeneland Jumbo Mug

Why? Because it reminds me of being in Keeneland - one of the prettiest places in North America.

Lovely in the Fall or the Spring:

[WeRQ4U]

66. Our Noah's Bagels Travel Mug....

My wife and I refer to it as "The Holy Grail." We both want it in the morning to take to work.

[MissMillie]

68. It has yellow daisies on it

and it's my favorite because my very best friend gave it to me.

[Jokerman]

70. NARAL - Freedom of Choice

My mom got it at a pro-choice rally. When she passed away it was one of the few things of hers that I kept.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

72. My favorite shows my true Geek-ness: My Babylon 5 Mug

(Not a photo of my actual mug, but my mug is identical.)

I received it as a give 10 years ago from another fan. I'd copied an episode she missed onto a tape (Probably violating copyrights all over the place) and she sent me this mug as a completely unsolicited "thank you".

It's big, holds a lot of liquid, but I've never microwaved it: the logo and the station look like they're made of a metallic paint.

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75. I have a beef with Babylon 5

I had this adorable video of my daughter at her Christmas recital when she was 2 years old. She was so sharp! And then hubby grabbed the video without checking its contents and taped a Babylon 5 episode over it. Didn't speak to him for weeks and I stopped watching the show thereafter.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

76. Well, that's totally understandable...Babylon 5 is so important. (kidding)

:crazy:
Just kidding. While I'm a big fan of Babylon 5: it's just a TV show. I'm sorry to hear about the fate of your daughter's Christmas recital recording. Please don't think less of me because I'm a fan of the show.
:hide:

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78. Don't be silly. I loved that show up to that point.

But a mother has to have her priorities.

[TrogL]

73. One from where I work

Of course I can't actually disclose where I work, and I'm not actually in the building portrayed, and I don't exactly work for the people in the building protrayed and I can't post a picture of the cup and if I did I'd have to turn the picture so it wasn't recognizeable, so just imagine a picture of a plain white coffee cup and you'd be pretty close.

[tigereye]

74. that is pretty funny!

tie for me


one my kid made at a ceramic workshop, and one with a black and white mod/Peter Max type design I just got at Target.

[snappymcbitch]

77. A Duck

The Long Island Duck to be exact. Just moved here and found in Flanders, LI a giant duck-shaped store that used to be a duck farm (until they all died from the toxic stuff on LI). Anyway, you can get all sorts of cool ducky products there. B-)

[indigo32]

79. My little sister got this one for me

it's very appropriate

[Lady Effingbroke]

80. A coffee mug from the Houston Blood Center - "2 gallon donor".

Because it was free with my last donation and it's the only one I have right now!