OT: schmooziest fancy car coffee cup?

Silvan wrote:
> I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked
his
> coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't
drink
> coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat
about
> these things.
>
> I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if
there's
> anything in particular I should be looking for.
>
> I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this
seems a
> fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted
from
> www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go
buy at
> a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What
box
> store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug
flummy?
> Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what?
What
> department will I find the thing in?

I just ordered a mug from Amazon. It was a thermal variety, but it is
ceramic on the inside. I can't stand the taste of tea in a plastic
cup.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000652D2C/qid=1105543794/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl60/102-9536357-0571311?v=glance&s=home-garden&n=507846

Or search for "highwave jomondo".
They sell smaller varieties as well ;-)

In article <[email protected]>, Morris Dovey
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Silvan wrote:
>
> > I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems a
> > fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from
> > www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy at
> > a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
> > store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
> > Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
> > department will I find the thing in?
>
> There are two kinds I like - one is an insulated stainless steel
> mug and the other is a plastic sailing mug that's about twice as
> large at the bottom as at the top with a non-skid pad.
>
> The stainless steel mugs are easier to find and one of the big
> manufacturers is Nissan.
>
> Try http://clusty.com/search?query=Nissan+coffee+mug for info.

The downside to the Alum ones is not being able to microwave them if it
needs a reheat.
Allen

Wed, Jan 12, 2005, 1:46am [email protected] (Silvan)
claims:
I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his
coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. <snip>

About any of the convenience store gas stations should have 2-3
types, at least.



JOAT
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
- =A0Dale Carnegie

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:46:31 -0500, Silvan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's
> anything in particular I should be looking for.

Can't go too wrong with stuff from thinkgeek.com, I'm sure there's
a ton of coffee-specific stuff there.

Dave

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:00:13 -0500, Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>
> Those insulated mugs.. they keep hot things hot and cold things
> cold...how does it KNOW?

It's all ball bearings these days.

Dave Hinz wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:00:13 -0500, Robatoy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>
>> Those insulated mugs.. they keep hot things hot and cold things
>> cold...how does it KNOW?
>
> It's all ball bearings these days.

Snrkfhk! Good one!

--
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[email protected] wrote:

> Silvan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
>> store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
>
> Just around the corner from your house there is a
> Books-A-Million and inside is a Joe Muggs coffee
> franchise. They have some nice ones.

Now that's the best advice of all. You speak as though you're somehow
familiar with the place. It's almost like you live in the next town
over. :)

--
Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[email protected]>
Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621
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http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

For the best in coffee mugs see: http://www.cafepress.com/blackbirdie/147688

(Also keeps my kid in lattes...)
Mr. SEG
jo4hn

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:46:31 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his
>coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't drink
>coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat about
>these things.
>
>I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's
>anything in particular I should be looking for.
>
>I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems a
>fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from
>www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy at
>a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
>store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
>Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
>department will I find the thing in?


you drive a truck. go to the store part of a bigish truck stop and get
one of the better insulated stainless double wall travel mugs. there
are several good ones out there now...

>>
>> The stainless steel mugs are easier to find and one of the big
>> manufacturers is Nissan.
>>
>> Try http://clusty.com/search?query=Nissan+coffee+mug for info.
>
> The downside to the Alum ones is not being able to microwave them if it
> needs a reheat.

Don't know if you can find one locally, but this mug is the best shop mug
ever. Keeps coffee hot for hours, can be completely sealed closed, and is
indestructible.

http://www.totalvac.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=JMQ400&Category_Code=&Store_Code=totalvac

After years of practice, trial and error and general can't do anything
without a cuppa I have settled on the Nissan stainless. I am pretty sure
that stainless means less about the steel and more about the front of you
shirt when your driving to work...

Knothead

Silvan <[email protected]> wrote:
> a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
> store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?

Just around the corner from your house there is a
Books-A-Million and inside is a Joe Muggs coffee
franchise. They have some nice ones.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

Silvan wrote:

> I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his
> coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't drink
> coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat about
> these things.
>
> I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's
> anything in particular I should be looking for.
>
> I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems
> a
> fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from
> www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy
> at
> a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
> store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
> Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
> department will I find the thing in?

Nissan.

If he's a beer and soda drinker, Nissan Thermos has one exceptionally nice
one (JCA350) that can function as a spill-resistant coffee mug but also is
shaped so that a standard soda or beer can drops right into it--it keeps
the can cold for hours. Or if he's on the go and hits Starbucks regularly,
they have another one, (JFC-600) designed so that you can drop the paper
cup right in. Both are vacuum-insulated stainless.

<http://www.coffee-makers-espresso-machines.com/thermosnissan.html> shows
most of the product line.


--
--John
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Luigi Zanasi wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:46:31 -0500, Silvan wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box store is
>> likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy? Should I
>> be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
>> department will I find the thing in?
>
> Where else but your favourite evil Kanuckistani tool pimp:
> ^
>
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.asp?SID=&ccurrency=2&page=32449&category=2,40733,40734
>
> or
>
>
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.asp?SID=&ccurrency=2&page=10056&category=2,40733,40734

Very pretty but I think I'd stick with Nissan--they've been making the
things for decades.

> Luigi
> replace "nonet" with "yukonomics" for real email address

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

In article <[email protected]>,
Silvan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his
> coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't drink
> coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat about
> these things.
>
> I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's
> anything in particular I should be looking for.
>
> I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems a
> fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from
> www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy at
> a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
> store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
> Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
> department will I find the thing in?

Those insulated mugs.. they keep hot things hot and cold things
cold...how does it KNOW?

In article <[email protected]>,
"Larry Bud" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just ordered a mug from Amazon. It was a thermal variety, but it is
> ceramic on the inside. I can't stand the taste of tea in a plastic
> cup.

[Deliberate and surgical snippification]

*gasp*...*trying to steady myself* *Looking at the ceiling in a waft of
indignation* TEA?? IN PLASTIC???

*tuning down the drama button*

Okay, where were we...oh.. I have an Emile Henry 'Tradition' mug.
Ceramic, made in France (If there EVER was a reason to transcend dislike
for the French, this might be it)
They are about 20 bucks in Kanuckistan. Trust me on this just this
once.. you have never had tea until you drop a couple of Earl Gray Green
bags into an Emile Henry mug (of course use bottled water, that goes
without saying.....!!).
<G>

Rob.

PS. Coffee may be okay in these as well. I stopped drinking coffee after
I found myself chewing through the straps too early in the morning......

"Silvan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's
> anything in particular I should be looking for.

Other's have mentioned Nissan. Now, stainless steel cups are common. But,
back in the day, Nissan was to Coffee Mugs what Zero Halliburton was to
attaches (briefcases).

I had my first Nissan stainless in 1985. Classic, timeless, rolex oyster,
etc....

One thing to check is the diameter of the cup holders in the truck. In my
Jeep, one is standard sized and has no difficulty accepting about any mug.
The other was "over engineered" by some dork and accepts just about nuthin'.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:46:31 -0500, Silvan
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his
>coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't drink
>coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat about
>these things.
>
>I want to get him something really spiffy, and I have no idea if there's
>anything in particular I should be looking for.
>
>I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems a
>fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from
>www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy at
>a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
>store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
>Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
>department will I find the thing in?

If you're looking for a travel mug/adult toddler cup, try a truck stop
if you have one nearby.. good assortment and usually built to last..

OPPS.. PC (politically correct, not porter cable) correction... nearby
"auto travel plaza"..



mac

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Silvan wrote:

> I figure some of you folks must drink the bitter bean juice, so this seems a
> fair place to ask. I'm not looking for something diamond encrusted from
> www.schmoozie.com or anything. Preferably something I could just go buy at
> a store. Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box
> store is likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy?
> Should I be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
> department will I find the thing in?

There are two kinds I like - one is an insulated stainless steel
mug and the other is a plastic sailing mug that's about twice as
large at the bottom as at the top with a non-skid pad.

The stainless steel mugs are easier to find and one of the big
manufacturers is Nissan.

Try http://clusty.com/search?query=Nissan+coffee+mug for info.

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/collectors.html

In article <[email protected]>,
Silvan <[email protected]> wrote:

> I knocked a friend's coffee cup off the back of my truck and leaked his
> coffee all over the ground. I want to get him a new one. I don't drink
> coffee, or hot beverages more generally, and I know diddly squat about
> these things.

I won't address the bit about your subconscious reaction to him puttin'
his cuppaJoe on _your_ truck...

Regarding a replacement mug, it all deepens...

If'n you want an artsy, hand-made ceramic then head to a
pottery-oriented gift shop(pe). If'n you might want some local color and
perhaps a catchy gen-X logo head to the corner coffee (and book)
cottage. If'n your friend drives an Escalade-Range Rover-Hummer-Land
Cruiser then by all means head to that most pedestrian pervayor of
peruvian nectar (of course, organically grown, picked by Juan Valdez
hisself, packed off the Andes by Bob the burro and delivered directly to
Seattle corporate offices by pierced, hemp wearing, dreadlocked boys and
girls via rowboat up the Pacific coast)... Starbucks. Should your friend
be of the Pabst swilling, hardhat wearing, chaw spittin', dunlap's
disease sportin' variety then they's no finer place to pick up a quality
container (brushed alyoumineum) for the morning coffacuppy than the
Flying J Truck Stop out by the innerstate (Whilst you're there, you
might consider one of them spiffy brushed thermos's too - he deserves
it, don't ya think?)

--
Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company
____

"Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised
as 100% Americanism." -- Huey P. Long

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:46:31 -0500, Silvan wrote:

<snip>
> Where does one find these things in stores anyway? What box store is
> likely to have the schmooziest fancy travel coffee mug flummy? Should I
> be looking at Wally-World, or maybe Advance Auto, or what? What
> department will I find the thing in?

Where else but your favourite evil Kanuckistani tool pimp:
^
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.asp?SID=&ccurrency=2&page=32449&category=2,40733,40734

or

http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.asp?SID=&ccurrency=2&page=10056&category=2,40733,40734

Luigi
replace "nonet" with "yukonomics" for real email address

>
> One thing to check is the diameter of the cup holders in the truck. In my
> Jeep, one is standard sized and has no difficulty accepting about any mug.
> The other was "over engineered" by some dork and accepts just about
> nuthin'.
>

The ones in my friend's jeep are square. We always joke around about some
foreign guy on the design team saying, "Ooooohhh, you say coffee CUP, I
thought you say coffee CAKE."