Hand painted mug fun

Whilst buying all sorts of pressies I stumbled across this hand painted mug. From the site: "Every now and then we are in a position to be able to offer these blue and white ceramic mugs. Geoffrey and Nina Maund have been making and decorating them, almost unchanged, since the 1950s. But now the operation is being run down, and we are rationed to fifty mugs a week. We never know when production will cease altogether, and this may well be the last opportunity, so if you know anybody who deserves one - yourself, for instance? NOW is the time to do something about it. (It will be specially welcomed by someone with an unusual name who will never have had an off-the-shelf named mug)."

I see a challenge. What would be funnier than a fantastically wholesome mug like this having a tee hee filthy word on it. I first thought of something like Imacunt, but I don't think that would be obvious and therefore funny enough, so I ordered one with motherfocker on it.

Lets see how customer services handle it. I'd love it for them to ring me up and breach the subject of why they need to cancel - but I would love to get one too.

Please allow 28 days for updates.

Update: didn't have to wait 28 minutes. Just had a slightly irate phone call from a flustered posh man called David.

"The name on the mug couldn't be allowed"
"what name?", tee hee
"the name on the order sir",

I didn't have the heart or the phone mic to prolong his agony

"would you like another name sir",

oh god the temptation, but as he was slightly hyper-ventilating i thought of the karma,

"no thanks"

bugger. Funs over kids, go back to your homes, there's nothing to see here.

Update2: Why do you always think of the best things to say when its too late. Now I've had a chance to think I would have spun a yarn about James putting the name for the mug in because it was a present for me, and being oblivious to it.

Water shortages: the shocking truth

Forget global warming, lack of rain and leaking pipes. There is a clear answer as to why water is disappearing from our lands.



Rice cakes. The human body has to draw all moisture from the air in order to make these "snacks" palatable. As more people succumb to these evil habits, the more moisture gets sucked from the air.

We are all going to die. Wake up! Take action!

Dad's family

I'm doing an album of old photos for dads side of the family in iPhoto. Its weird to get some of the backstory to people you only knew when they were old - look at these pair of hip hotties - my grandparents.