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What is in your mug?

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I generally don't use mugs for drinking and I don't actively collect them, yet I seem to have acquired a bunch of mugs that I did not buy - as you can see...

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They all have significant meaning for me, except the Chicago mug - my memory fails me as to how I got that one. Did element14 ever give away Chicago mugs?

The computer mug is pretty geeky and the Tardis mug is pretty fancy - the Tardis disappears from the scene when a hot liquid is in the mug.

I was going to call this blog "The Unsung Toolbox" because that is what I use some of these mugs for. Here are the contents of the Dad mug:

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As you can see it is an odd assortment of skinny tools, some of which are a bit unusual, although that doesn't come across well in the picture.

Brownie points if you can spot the 3D printed part on a tool and why it is needed.

I also have mugs and jam jars full of fancy pens (mostly trade show swag), but this blog is about how useful mugs are as toolboxes with sentimental value.

So:

  • What kind of beverage is in your mug?
  • What other use do you put your mug to?
  • What is you favorite mug?
  • What is your weirdest mug?
  • What unusual places do you store your mug?
  • What is the most sentimental mug you own?
  • What is your funniest mug?
  • What mug do you covet?
  • What category am I missing?

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  • Haha ... I like fun threads like this:

    • What kind of beverage is in your mug?
      • Usually cold water.
    • What other use do you put your mug to?
      • Not much really ...
    • What is you[sic] favorite mug?
      • The one I can trust is clean ...
    • What is your weirdest mug?
      • Can't say that I have one ...
    • What unusual places do you store your mug?
      • In its box, awaiting first use.
    • What is the most sentimental mug you own?
      • A candy-filled Christmas-wreath design mug I've had since 1995, gifted from a school friend at the end of the year, as I was transferring to another school.
    • What is your funniest mug?
      • A broken one ...
    • What mug do you covet?
      • Those colour-changing ones where it reveals something different upon pouring a warm beverage in ... but I guess it doesn't help that I usually drink cold beverages!
    • What category am I missing?
      • Have you ever been mugged?

     

    - Gough

  • in reply to Gough Lui

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    What category am I missing?

    • Have you ever been mugged?

    I was held at gunpoint (shotgun) for a several hours. Does that count?

    I was a student on a road trip on my motorcycle and camped in a secluded spot (miles from the nearest building) by myself.

    I was woken up about 1:00 am in the rain with a tractor light shining into my tent.

    This gristled old guy stuck a shotgun in my face and started interrogating me about what I was doing there.

    I couldn't see much because of the light in my eyes, but it eventually became apparent he thought I was an investigator looking into smuggling guns (the location was near the border). My ID didn't help at all (at the time I had a summer job as a security guard and I had an official Pinkerton's badge)

    Lets talk about learning to negotiate under stress.

    He had been drinking and wasn't inclined to believe my story. It took a couple of hours to convince him I wasn't investigating smuggling. But then he thought I was moving in on the territory and doing some smuggling of my own. And he wanted to know what contraband I was smuggling.

    After another hour of interrogation which turned into haggling, I ended up selling him a $15 transistor radio for $35, which he thought was a bargain. I wasn't in control of the situation at all, but I was reluctant to part with the radio because it was a gift from my Aunt - he just thought I couldn't let it go too far below its value so he kept offering more for it. For some reason I always felt guilty about selling that radio.

    After he left it was pitch black and raining, so I couldn't break camp, but you can bet I cleared out of there at first light.

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  • in reply to Gough Lui

      wrote:

     

    What category am I missing?

    • Have you ever been mugged?

    I was held at gunpoint (shotgun) for a several hours. Does that count?

    I was a student on a road trip on my motorcycle and camped in a secluded spot (miles from the nearest building) by myself.

    I was woken up about 1:00 am in the rain with a tractor light shining into my tent.

    This gristled old guy stuck a shotgun in my face and started interrogating me about what I was doing there.

    I couldn't see much because of the light in my eyes, but it eventually became apparent he thought I was an investigator looking into smuggling guns (the location was near the border). My ID didn't help at all (at the time I had a summer job as a security guard and I had an official Pinkerton's badge)

    Lets talk about learning to negotiate under stress.

    He had been drinking and wasn't inclined to believe my story. It took a couple of hours to convince him I wasn't investigating smuggling. But then he thought I was moving in on the territory and doing some smuggling of my own. And he wanted to know what contraband I was smuggling.

    After another hour of interrogation which turned into haggling, I ended up selling him a $15 transistor radio for $35, which he thought was a bargain. I wasn't in control of the situation at all, but I was reluctant to part with the radio because it was a gift from my Aunt - he just thought I couldn't let it go too far below its value so he kept offering more for it. For some reason I always felt guilty about selling that radio.

    After he left it was pitch black and raining, so I couldn't break camp, but you can bet I cleared out of there at first light.

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  • in reply to dougw

    Wow. That's one intense story ... I'd have to say that thankfully, I've not encountered anything anywhere remotely that interesting. I've not been mugged myself (touch-wood), but I've watched on as some of my mates were back in High School. Members from rival schools would occasionally turn up at the school gates to collect their "dues" from anyone that walked by. Luckily for me, I slipped past as they were preoccupied with others ...

     

    - Gough