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[moon_custafer]

This morning my Cthulatte coffee mug was gone from the office kitchen cupboard. This was annoying, but more, it was puzzling - why, out of all the coffee cups, would someone steal the grungy one with jokes on it that few people would get?

At lunch I found it in the fridge. It was being used to hold individual creamers. I still question the taste of the individual who appropriated it for the purpose.

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[theengineer.livejournal.com]

I keep my Friends of the Merril Collection mug on my desk at all times, as its disappeared a few times and once taken several days to track down again.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

Just one question - where can I get one?

Not yours, I mean. :^)

[angrykat.livejournal.com]

I have lost several mugs from that place. leave in your desk locked up so no one can use it but you. yes I have lost one from my desk.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

My Cafepress shop, she said, a trifle disingenuously:

http://www.cafepress.com/2headed

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

Now that's cool. That's just about perfect.

Between this and things like the Edward Gorey-illustrated "War of the Worlds", next month's disposable income is already getting pretty dang well disposed of.

"Prawn Star" and "Gods Playing Poker" too...

I loooove the idea of the Serial Diners. Obviously I have wandered over to your web page. Do you go to *every* restaurant, even McDonalds, and such? Are there other criteria somehow?

I looooove the "Laundry Room Bonsai" drawing.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

If it's a chain, like MacDonalds, we only go to the first one listed.

Also, a lot of the places we go to turn out to be (a) closed for the day, (b)closed down, (c) were never there within living memory. In those cases, we pick an alternate spot & eat there. This is known as "filling up at Harvey's," although we've never gone to Harvey's as our alternate.

If the restaurant has just moved over a few doors, we eat there, provided it does not have a beer sign bigger or brighter than the restaurant sign.

If the restaurant is closed we do not return to it next week. They've missed out on us, & we move on.

That's about it really - oh - there's also an unofficial rule that if we're in a food court, we can eat anywhere in that food court (especially since most food court places are shutting down by 6pm when we show up).

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

This is fascinating!

How many of you usually show up? Five? Dozens? Hundreds? :^)

I will never have a chance to implement this in Denver but it is now on the Back Burner (the list of things to do before I die).

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Over the 12-plus years it's been going on, there have been hundreds of people, but most only came a couple of times. The regulars are a few dozen, with a hard core of maybe twenty. Depending on the location and the date, about 12 to 24 people usually show up; afterwards we may hang out at another location, go to a movie or somebody's house. I actually met my husband this way, & there are a few other couples who got together because of Diners.

Hmm, Denver. Er- how many restaurants are there in your Yellow Pages? I think some people tried to start a Serial Diners in Buffalo years ago, but they ran out of places to go. Toronto's phone book was split into East & West editions a decade or so back, so now Jason Taniguchi (our fearless leader) has to collate them and print up a schedule twice a year (he's supposed to have this year's second half out tomorrow, if he's got his act together).