The three finger salute cup set

Rationalizing this $10 purchase at ThinkGeek meets an early hurdle in the fact that I have a square mug already (an early unrounded version of the legendary Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate mug) and am well aware that it is the worst shape for a mug, even worse than triangles (whereby the sharp angles form useful spouts) and perhaps good only for holding nuts. Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cup Set [ThinkGeek]

• [marvelgirl]

  Terrible design for coffee, but as liquer or shot glasses they would be the perfect antidote to an awkward or tense social situation: “Here’s some booze, now let just CtrlAltDel, y’all!”

• [caipirina]

  That in glass for Gin & Tonics … that would be cool …

• [snakedart]

  That you believe square cups are good for holding nuts makes me question your anatomy.

• [diluded000]

  Years ago an engineer that did development work on first wire wrapped IBM-PC hardware prototype and BIOS, came and talked to our ASIC design class at NC State. Apparently the ctrl-alt-del sequence was inspired by the classic Star-trek Vulcan death grip.

• [Freddie Freelance]

  Yeah, third/fourth the “cool for alcoholic beverages.” My first thought was these would be good for Sake since you’re supposed to spill a little, but the size of the cups would hold too much Sake at once since you’re supposed to have small cups & fill your neighbors cup every time it gets low.

  • [Anonymous]

    So, kind of a high tech masu?

• [TooGoodToCheck]

  Between this and the low poly coffee mug (#9 from Designing and 3D printing 30 coffee cups in 30 days), buying awesomely geeky new mugs is starting to look fairly inevitable

• [Anonymous]

  I’d like Alt-Fn-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B

• [Anonymous]

  I always thought square mugs were better…good sides for gripping and drink out of the corner. The aesthetic factor is a plus as well!

• [Anonymous]

  Now if ThinkGeek and similar shops didn’t have so ridiculous shipping rates to overseas…it’s almost always the deal breaker.

• [jbldb]

  That would make a very good saké set as well…

• [Nancy55]

  Amusement: 4-7 seconds.
  Lip-burn: 3 days.

• [awjtawjt]

  reminds me of this

• [geekd]

  They are kinda big. They would be better as a shot glass.

• [Anonymous]

  Not exactly what I was expecting.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(hand_gesture)

• [Anonymous]

  anybody else noticed the square-ish shot glass Deckard uses in one scene in Blade Runner? okay, anybody else obsessed about finding a period copy of those things? i refuse to believe they were custom one-off props created for the film alone; somewhere out there, there HAS to be a set…