Who's In?

Thanks to the clue from Greg, I have learned the name of the coveted mug.  It is a "Spokane Barrel Mug."  

I have also learned where I can buy such a mug.  Hurrah!  Unfortunately, I have to buy at least 36 of them in order to place an order.  

I'm happy to keep 4, and I'm going to have to send a couple to Megan just to make sure she learns what she has been missing.  But what am I going to do with the rest of them?  Would any of you guys like one or two?

What I'm talking about, apparently, is a limited edition Rhubarb Pie mug.  It looks like $10 to $13 would cover everything, including me schlepping it to the post office to ship it to you.    

Also, since an imprint is included, it seems silly not to put something on the sides of these babies.  

I could draw a picture of Dick Cheney's face?  Or a diagram of the brain?  Or a cartoon of Megan lifting weights with the words "BE STRONG"?  I suppose a little sketch of a pie would be obvious.  Or some kind of clever in-joke?  I am not very good at these things.  (In truth, I was thinking of asking them to give me the Pittsburgh Regional Traffic Management Center logo pictured, because that would make me smile every day -- except it's more than one single color, which isn't so great.)

[The alternative to this plan is I go over to the college bookstore and start lobbying that they order some of these, or at least request some free samples.  Which I am quite prepared to do.]

Comments

[K-sky]

On the off chance that you don't round up three dozen mug orders, I think these people will sell you two dozen and this person will sell you one.

[K-sky]

Hey, looky that, it ate my HTML.

http://www.dcbowden.com/pottery_stock.shtml

http://www.themarketcollection.com/itemdetail-new.php?pid=CT803-02%2F309%2F2DZ&path=1,101,821

[Jens Fiederer]

Picture of Megan lifting a pie on a sailboat, Sherry at the tiller.

Not used to having comments.

[LizardBreath]

Wouldn't you know, I broke my office coffee mug yesterday. I'm no help on graphics, but if you settle on something, I'm in.

[Megan]

Sherry, the cobalt in Greg's list is gorgeous, but that orange in k-sky's link (the second) is amazing. You can buy just four of those.

We're really going to have swag? Really? You should draw it, because you're the talented one. You could draw a phrenology head and let me label all the sections with obscenities.

[JRoth]

I just want to make sure that people take a look at the Pittsburgh &c. mug, because it features the PennDOT logo, which features... a dot. Get it?

I know that my blog hostess the bureaucrat doesn't have a lame sense of humor, and I know that my wife the bureaucrat doesn't have a lame sense of humor, but I get the distinct impression that my highway engineers have lame senses of humor.

[Megan]

State law forces us to put freeze frame pictures of water drops on everything we do.

[Susan]

You could draw a phrenology head and let me label all the sections with obscenities.

Yes. I would definitely buy one of those.

[Susan]

(The quoted part was supposed to be italicized, but I guess Typepad doesn't like HTML in comments. That's what I get for not previewing first.)

[NickS]

The other thing worth mentioning, if getting a group order together ends up being too much work, is that you may be able to find mugs in that shape at your local farmer's market.

Perhaps I'm just in the right part of the country for it, but I have 3 or 4 nicely curved mugs of various sizes that I've picked up from local potters for between $10-$20 each.

[teofilo]

There are other state DOTs that have logos including dots. Arizona, for example:

http://www.azdot.gov/

[teofilo]

However, looking through them, none is quite as blatant as PA.

[Michael]

I want mine with a picture of rhubarb pie on it.

[matt]

I would totally buy a phrenology mug with obscenities written in. Possibly several, having a few friends that would love it.

You two are great. :)