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Anybody else have a favorite mug/cup/glass...

simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
...I've got this plastic, insulated, 24oz mug that I can pour 2/3 of a quart of my favorite tea (Winn Dixie brand with nutra-sweet - no sugar) into and just be happy. Its almost a requirement for a good day.

I take it off the counter first thing in the morning for dog walking, breakfast, and paper reading. 24 oz.

I take it for my hour drive into work. 48 oz.

One mug full before and during lunch. 72 oz.

One mug full for the afternoon. 96 oz.

One mug full for the drive home. 120 oz.

And one mug full for supper. 144 oz. (yes, I'm diabetic)

Then I wash it, and place it on a paper towel on the counter for the next day. I figure since I don't smoke and only drink about a six pack every month, I can have this one vice.

We only have a few special years with our children in which they desire our time, attention, and love. After that time is over, it is gone forever, and we will be the ones that desire their time, attention, and love. Make those few, short years count -

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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    144 ounces? That's some pretty serious drinking.

    PC=BS
  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Boy simonbs, I bet you can't drive 5 minutes without stopping to find a bathroom!! Reminds me of my wife!

    Actually, I have a glass mug I got from a Bier festival in Austria. It isn't in really good shape, but I love pulling it out of the freezer and pouring a cold one into it!



    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm sitting here right now drinking a cup of coffee from my special mug. It's a cobalt blue National Management Association commemorative from the old Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant outside Denver. It has a picture of the plant etched on one side and on the other, the words GLOWING WITH PRIDE .
    They scrambled around trying to get them all back after the conference but most of us hide them.

    Clouder..
  • instrumentofwarinstrumentofwar Member Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At home I've got a POW/MIA mug that is always filled. I never wash the thing and the wife practically has to stage a non-lethal ambush to get it away from me long enough to wash it. Hot coffee, cold coffee, coffee that's been in the pot overnight and needs nuked....you could say I've got a problem.

    The other is just some el-cheapo camo mug(32oz). Carry it everywhere with me. IDS will verify. To pt formation, I hump it in the field, hell I've even jumped it in a few times at Bragg. Just seems to taste better than out of a steel canteen cup.

    I've become quite talented with it. I've had some pretty nasty falls, unexpected balling up of other teams soldiers, and the like and it is a rare day to see me spill a drop. I do not jest when I say it's my lifes blood.

    Some people just shouldn't be allowed to breed

    You know that you've got a problem when you have a special bladder for your camelback that is designated just for coffee. Don't spread that bit of info though. I kind of have a reputation of being impervious to the elements. Walking around Ft. Drum in the dead of winter, during a snowstorm, with below zero windchill with nothing but my BDU's, smoking jacket, set of nomex gloves, and my trusty camelback. It just doesn't feel all that cold when you've got 100oz's of hot coffee strapped to your back. Go figure

    Edited by - instrumentofwar on 04/24/2002 16:47:37
  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994
    edited November -1
    Concealed, I only go about six times per day

    'Clouder, sounds like your mug would make the coffee for you...just add water and grounds and let the radiation take care of the rest

    Iow - no wonder you like to scrap so much

    We only have a few special years with our children in which they desire our time, attention, and love. After that time is over, it is gone forever, and we will be the ones that desire their time, attention, and love. Make those few, short years count -
  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nothing really sentimental here, but I love rinking out of those big jars. The ones that are glass and about the size of those family size peanut butter jars. They're great because I can fit a ton of drink in there and the wide mouth fits my big mouth perfectly. [:}]

    Fill it with Lemonade and you got a great summer afternoon

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  • mcneely77mcneely77 Member Posts: 411 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nothing fancy, 22oz Chicago Cubs travel mug, filled with Vernors. An absolute necessity for patrol.

    IALEFI, ASLET, NRA, and proud owner of a pair of S&W revolvers.
  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    12 oz coffee mug from some truckstop in viginia it had NEVER seen a washrag and it never will

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It depends on what mode I'm in: I really like my stainless Starbucks mug while sitting in traffic. I'm also with IOW, though -- I have 4 bladders for my CamelBak -- Water, Lemonade, Coffee, Green Tea. They've all been serving me well since 1996/1997.


    DarkStar11"Now is the test of the boomerangtossed in the night of redeeming"
  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Although I'm mighty envious of clouder's requisition, my favorite reads: "You failure to plan ahead does not constitute an emergency on my part!" A gift from co-workers when I managed a lab where we tested incoming raw materials for a JIT (Just in Time) manufacturing facility. We called it "Just in Trouble" as we had at least one artificial emergency every day!
  • leadlead Member Posts: 2,311 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've got three, I have the Remington coffee mugs that came out a couple of years ago with a bag of 22's. I have all but the one with the Black Lab.
  • mustangmustang Member Posts: 615 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i got 3 cool mugs i love, one has a 65 mustang coupe on it, the other is of the trix's rabbit. an a 16oz napa racing travel mug to get me to work. i think i have a long way to go to get to 144oz in one day, another goal for me to work on.
  • kimberkidkimberkid Member Posts: 8,858 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only requirement I have for a cup/mug is it must be at least 20oz ... and insulated!

    My wife, who doesn't care for guns ... (but puts up with my affection for them) always seems to grab a HK, Remington, or other cup/mug when she goes to get a cup of coffee ... there are plenty of others with fuzzy kittens or other stuff, but she always has a 1/2 cup/mug with a gun depiction on it ... I don't understand but I dont mind either; None are 20+ ounces!

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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I actually have two...At work I have a Bass Pro Shop insulated mug that my boys bought me several years ago. At home I use a Mug that was given to me by the parents of a child client I had almost 20 + years ago.
  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have an old Buckhorn Truck Stop travel mug for the road and just retired my old cracked Freightliner in house ceramic mug for a new "COMBAT" mug.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554
    edited November -1
    20oz. Stainless Steel Insulated Mug. With a Black top on it...

    KIMBER: Pistol du jour
  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A coffee mug from back on my days on the fire dept. we all got one on the depts anniversary with our names on them
  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I know you are going to have a hard time beleiving this, but I have a Black Ruger 15oz. Mug.

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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    I have a mug that is hand painted by my daughter - it says "Jeep Dad" and "Love You XOXO" on the bottom. Broke the handle awhile back - but what the heck - coffee just taste a little better out of it....

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    InstrumentOfWar--Yes indeed. Everytime I think of your s***-eating grin of yours I always picture your right hand holding that camo-mug full of coffee. Isn't it that same coffee mug that you left on the floor-board of my pickup which tipped over when I put it in reverse? Ah yes, that spill was a good excuse to do a good detailing of the whole interior. The stain came out but I'd welcome it back just to have a daily reminder of you and your grin and that gosh darn mug of yours.

    I prefer to drink all beverages (even coffee sometimes) out of a large glass mug bearing the head of a ram and the words "EST 1971". I picked it up at "The Ram" (a.k.a. Bighorn Brewery) in the state of Washington while I was stationed at Fort Lewis. They had the best gosh darn burgers in that whole state and they had an EXCELLENT brewery that was co-located with one of their restaurants. If you couldn't decide which beer you wanted to have with your meal, they would take out shot-glasses with a sample of each of their handcrafted delicacies. You'd take 6-8 shots of beer and make your choice. Many good times were shared there at The Ram. Being that I've never been much of a drinker I was almost always the designated driver for those who chose to indulge in one of their larger mugs--the same mug that sits on my desk right now. Mugs come and go but this one has been with me for a few years now. It used to just hold pens but now it holds tea, coffee, Mr. Pibb or ice water.

    I know y'all are just dying to get your hands on one of these "ARMY OF ONE" mugs that us recruiters give away like candy.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....I stay away from those jumbo mugs, just don't have an industrial size bladder to match...my favorite is a gloss black ceramic mug with Rush Limbaugh's signiture in gold. I avoid light colored mugs that show coffee stains.....
  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Idsman -- Bighorn's Total Disorder Porter is some good stuff....

    DarkStar11"Now is the test of the boomerangtossed in the night of redeeming"
  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Depends what I'm drinking and where
    At home drinking a soda or tea I've got a huge old heavy A&W rootbeer
    mug. Stolen from them when I was a kid about 78 or 9.
    On the road I've got a 64 oz. thermal go cup (Yes 64) The gas station hates to see me come in because it's got their logo I get to fill it for $.39 . I go in and wipe them out and they have to make all fresh pot. They had these and when you paid 3.99 for it you got 20 free refills and then you had to start paying.
  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    What else would an LEO use? I have a ceramic DUNKIN DONUT coffee cup in front of me even as I type this, lol.

    About three years ago, Dunkin Donuts tried to sell them for 1.95.
    They didn't sell very well, so the manager of my Dunkin Donut store gave me the last six.

    My wife almost had a fit last Thanksgiving when I served them to the family on the same table with her Waterford crystal. Geesh, some women just don't have a sense of humor.

    -Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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