A long time ago I wrote about the little Batman mug that nobody loved, it was a mug that for what seemed like no reason at all had fallen not only out of favour but further down into a sort of loathing. If, when someone was kind enough to make you a cup of coffee you were always a little sad to see that it was in the Batman mug and you would find yourself wondering why you were being slighted.
Surprisingly enough I believe that mug to still be loitering in the back of the cupboard, having survived, very much like a cockroach various coffee cup culling that have gone on in our house over various moves.
This leads me to explain the fact that we have a menagerie of coffee cups in our house, by which I mean a variety of cups of various designs and not a re-edited two part Star Trek pilot episode (the latter of course wouldn’t even make sense but would grant you geek points if that was the first thing you thought of when reading the word menagerie).
We’ve tried in the past to shape up our coffee drinking related cups into some sort of orderly collection of mugs that are at least the same size and that do not have faded images of various cartoon characters, despite my insistence that I’m sure that the Queen drinks out of a knock-off Hellboy mug.
Fortunately Tracey is not easily swayed by my poorly researched ‘good enough for royality’ arguments of which even I’m not really passionate about and she has sorted the mug situation for us at home:
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One of the possible names I considered for that collaborative blogging thing was in fact the Geek Menagerie, but I thought that people would have trouble spelling that.
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All I can say is thank the interwebz for Google Chrome’s spell check
That is an awesome name for a collaborative blog – if you are even vaguely interested in resurrecting that let me know!!
ROFL !!!!!
Way to go Tracey, I like the way she thinks.
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She is all shades of awesomeness.
I can relate to the coffe cup menagerie, as we have one in our kitchen. It ranges from a 4-mug set that my Mum bought for impress visitors, to my 14yo Ghost Rider mug which is cracked to the point where it can no longer hold liquid (but will NEVER be thrown out!)
My current cup of choice is a promotional mug with my employer’s logo emplazoned across it. I’m not really keen on being part of a viral advertising campaign but it is a nice, funcional, well-sized mug.
I have a Star Trek mug that was cracked along the handle, so it couldn’t actually be used and I hung onto it for ages but then i got another and the broken one was discarded like yesterday’s trash… um come to think of it it was yesterday’s trash.
I’ve got this with mugs (old 80′s Marco van Basten soccer mug, mug with a photo of me, mug with a kiddy dino, mug with my name, mug from a Christmasmarket in Germany..you name it, I’ve got it). but with glasses too! Movie glasses (just the movieposter on it), starwars glasses, and a very wide range of beerglasses and others.
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I thought it was worth mentioning but I never did about my Jurassic Park cup, that rather than throw out I started using as my water colours water cup. It was a nice way to hang on to a mug that I wasn’t going to otherwise be using and I know that you dig JP – at least I thought you did?
that’s a big YES (still do). Which reminds me I’ve got the video tapes lying around at my parents place (I think all 3) and I still got to hook up my taperecorder overhere.
Arjan’s last blog post..Walchsee: training and having fun
Awesome!…
This type of coffee mug is perfect for partners.