This mug is mine

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This mug is mine

18th-Jun-2009 03:45 pm

Darwin Mug
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A week ago I was at my first Liberal Drinks, during which I became used to being introduced as "our friend Debi, she is a small-l liberal", and at which I finally met Charlotte Gore, who I am assured is not a Tory.

I don't know what happened to the conversation, but it became about mugs. Not just any mugs, but mugs that Belong to a person.

This is my mug. The mug is mine. I will use it preferentially for my morning coffee, afternoon tea, anytime I need a mug, actually. I'm so possessive over it that I don't like seeing anyone else drinking out of it, and I don't generally drink out of any other mugs (well, except for two specific ones).

I bought it a few years ago at Nauticalia, who sell a range of mugs featuring English Heritage blue plaques visible around the country. The blue plaque on this one specifically is actually on the Darwin Building at UCL, where I was a student and where I currently work at the Grant Museum. So not only does it represent evolutionary science and Darwin himself, but also my alma mater. Where I come from intellectually as well as biologically.

Plus it's bigger than normal cups and I can get extra coffee.

Poll #1417587 Your mug
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

Do you have a mug, a mug that is Yours - at home?

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Not at all
4 (10.0%)
Yes - one specific
18 (45.0%)
Yes - a few
13 (32.5%)
Kind of? Let me explain...
5 (12.5%)

Do describe it for me?

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Do you have a mug, a mug that is Yours - at your workplace?

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Nope.

17 (43.6%)

Yes

19 (48.7%)

This is as complicated as the home question. See you in the comments!

3 (7.7%)

What's that one like?

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Tell me more!

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18th-Jun-2009 03:03 pm (UTC)

pmoodie

At home, I have a couple of mugs that I prefer. One is a sort of rustic-looking hand-crafted thing, and the other has Spider-Man on it! But I'm not too territorial about them and I won't get upset if someone else drinks from them. El, on the otner hand, has loads of mugs that are HERS, and woe-betide the poor fool who uses them!

At work, I have a green one that I like. But again, I won't cry if someone else beats me to it in the moring. I'll just twitch a bit and reluctantly use one of the others.

Now then, shall I put the kettle on?

18th-Jun-2009 03:07 pm (UTC)

huskyteer

Curses, I was sure there would be a picture of it online somewhere! It says 'Man of Action - His Mug' with a suitable illustration of a flying ace. I get really, really upset when my flatemate offers it to guests.

Edited at 2009-06-18 15:07 (UTC)

18th-Jun-2009 03:10 pm (UTC)

agonistes

My Mugs here are all from Hadley Pottery -- I grew up with them as a Louisville Local Institution, my parents bought a full set right before we left Louisville, and the couple of times I've been back since we moved in 1996 I've bought a few pieces for myself. They are all oversized mugs, and they're thick enough that you can bash somebody's head in if necessary, and I love them all dearly. And they are MINE ALL MINE NOBODY ELSE'S BUT MINE.

18th-Jun-2009 03:15 pm (UTC)

strangefrontier

I ran out of space describing all my mugs! But yes, I do have a collection of mugs that are Mine, but I let other people use them if I have specifically given them permission.

18th-Jun-2009 03:36 pm (UTC)

gramarye1971

I also have a collection of home mugs that are Mine:

- 7 Penguin book mugs that I bought several years ago
- A white mug (with tea strainer!) that has a picture of Hokusai's Great Wave on it
- A black LSE 'currency' mug
- A white mug with my undergrad college's logo on it

There are a few others, including a fine bone china mug that has bookshelves on it, but these are the ones that I don't like other people to use. ^_^ And I'd buy more if I didn't think I owned too many already. I like mugs a lot.

18th-Jun-2009 04:54 pm (UTC)

silveronthetree

This is SUCH a complicated question, particularly as I have two places that I call home and two work places. I'm about to be tldr.

My childhood home mug is the one described in the Poll, bought for me because I took all my own MY mugs to uni. It isn't what was chosen but fits well with Mum's habit of buying me something in red/purple and Dad having blue and mum having green (see tooth brushes, towels, breakfast plates). If that one isn't available I steal my Dad's penguin book P.G. Wodehouse mug.

I have lots of mugs here. And I (silently) resent it when my housemates use MY mugs and there isn't one left for me. Mine are the only ones that aren't cracked or chipped or really really small, so I can't really blame them. I don't really have a particular favourite any more but I'm pretty fond of the one that matches the one in the museum office.

I have a boring cream mug that says coffee and tea around the rim at the uni office and the one at the museum is cream with green and grey leaves on it. I bought it Ikea because I particularly like the widening upwards, truncated cone shape. I don't keep favourite mugs in the office because they always get broken :( I'm still in mourning for a previous favourite which is now missing it's handle.

18th-Jun-2009 06:54 pm (UTC)

davegodfrey

I also have a mug that says I [heart] steam trains. But I don't use it very often as it doesn't hold a pint, unlike the nice big Periodic Table one. Which also has Dalton's element diagram on the handle, and a picture of Mendeleev.

Seeing that Darwin one, I might have to get it. It does look rather splendid.

18th-Jun-2009 07:11 pm (UTC)

cupenny

For work- well, I work at Starbucks. We sell cups, and have many 'for here' ones, and.... frankly, I wouldn't trust my coworkers enough to leave any mug that was particularly special to me around for them to use/clean/break.

18th-Jun-2009 09:24 pm (UTC)

exmoor_cat

Haven't been to a Liberal Drinks in ages!

18th-Jun-2009 09:25 pm (UTC)

ladytevar

The one my mother made me I'm afraid to use, since it's got a picture of me between the lining and the outside. It's all 70s psychadelic color waves around the picture, with white balloon letters stating "This Is My Mug!"

Yeah, 70s kitsch. Gotta love it.

18th-Jun-2009 10:17 pm (UTC)

wieselkind

My favourite mug is my Carry on Loving one, this one on the right

http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:GD_dhI6Kal0gfM:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2771313123_a48ef6ecf5.jpg%3Fv%3D0

At my parents i have a mug, that looks like a mug and a t cup had a Goth love child.

19th-Jun-2009 12:16 am (UTC)

Livejournal Lotte [charlottegore.com]

Twas lovely meeting you, although I did feel like a right dumpy northern thicko ;)

I finally did blog about the mugs thing (http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/19/bonding-with-your-mug.html"). Fingers crossed it breaks the writer's block.

Your mug is grand, I can see why you like it. :)

19th-Jun-2009 09:22 am (UTC)

innerbrat

I don't know why you felt that, you sure as hell didn't come across that way. And I love your mugs too :D

Also your icon is a work of terrifying genius.

Howl!

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