Purple penguin mug

[redbird]

My favorite mug, for several years, has been what we refer to as the "bunny mug," a busy design of brown rabbits on a cream-colored mug. It's one of a series of similar designs of, well, animal orgies marketed by Taylor & Ng around 1979. The design is incidental--however proverbial rabbits may be for such things, they don't even begin to carbonate my hormones. But it's large, holding about 16 ounces, and fits my hand well. We bought a couple of mugs from Cafe Press a while ago, and while the size is good, the china is too thick and thus heavy to be comfortable for me when it's full of tea.

They don't make those mugs anymore, but there's a reasonable second-hand market on eBay. I've bid on a few of these recently, and am the high bidder on a purple "Penguin Motif Mug." I may try to pick up more like it, or I may make another attempt to find new mugs of this size and shape. (The trick, if looking on eBay, is that they reissued the designs a few years later, on slightly smaller mugs--fine if you're collecting designs, not so good if the goal is a generous cup of tea or coffee.)

Comments

[liv]

Please can you unpick the expression carbonate my hormones? I understand from context that you mean you don't find the bunny orgies erotic, but I don't understand the metaphor. I'm sure I'm missing some really obvious point here!

[redbird]

Sorry, that's one I picked up from roadnotes long enough ago that I'm not sure what the metaphor is, or where she found it. Probably something along the lines of a person's hormones/body being smooth and undisturbed by default, and then a person/thing comes along that sets them to bubbling up.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I got it from a Bloom County cartoon, and Vicki's interpretation is the one I use, perhaps with a small twinge of "carbonation getting up my nose, and distracting me."

[liv]

Aha, carbonated as in carbonated drinks, not as in getting burnt. Thank you both.

[shikzoid.livejournal.com]

EBay has helped expand my Laurel Burch mug collection something fierce. I agree that the right size and heft make a big difference. The thing about the LB collection is that everybody get a good mug and they're easy to tell apart.