Diesel Sweeties "Fucking Coffee" mug

R. Stevens of Diesel Sweeties sent me one of these coffee mugs. When I finally stopped laughing, like 6 hours later, I poured some coffee into it and it was officially christened as my favorite coffee mug ever of my entire life. Tons more wonderful stuff, perfect for holiday gift giving, in the Diesel Sweeties online store. [instagram link]

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Fucking coffee: how does it work?
Also: FRIST
nixiebunny

I walked into the kitchen just now, and my lovely wife was hunched over the coffeemaker, brandishing a knife.
http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney

Wat. “I’ll” isn’t uppercase like the rest of the text in that style. This would drive me insane.
- nixiebunny
  
  At least until you’ve had your coffee.
- GawainLavers
  
  Goddamn it, now I can’t get it.
Robert Emslie

Noticing the two Ls in the all caps bottom sentence are lower case…

[EDIT]

Dean beat me to it…
RitaMarieM

You shouldn’t be proud of being addicted to coffee. In doing so you join ranks with the people who think they’re special because they can withstand the various pains of eating really spicy food. And children who eat worms.
- s2redux
  
  I’d like this statement a lot more if it was printed on the side of a mug…
  - Chentzilla
    
    Buy it here: http://printdirect.ru/storefront/shared_info/4413264
Chentzilla

You know, there are people in this world with chronic ailments, which, though relatively “minor” compared to, say, cancer, also deny those people various luxuries of “normal” life. Like coffee. Posting things like this ruthlessly teases those people to no end.

Just saying.

Also, I don’t get the joke.
- http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
  
  Oh I agree, Boing Boing shouldn’t post a photo of a coffee mug with humorous text on it, because it is really offensive to people that can’t drink coffee. They should also never cover stories about gadgets that some people may not be able to afford, because that’s just rubbing their face in their poverty. Also stories about events in places where people can’t get to, that always upsets me because I’d like to be at those events.
  
  Oh and I don’t want to see any more stories on people that are sensitive to mundane stuff like slogans on coffee cups because it makes me feel bad about how I judge those people as overly sensitive.
  - http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson
    
    I find your sarcasm hurtful. Please refrain from posting anything sarcastic on boing boing or anywhere else I might come across it.
    
    Thank you.
  - Chentzilla
    
    Just shut up and explain how it’s humorous.
    - jimh
      
      Hard to do both, right?
      - Chentzilla
        
        “And” as in “the mother sat down and read us the book”.
      - http://twitter.com/ScottHeinowski Scott Heinowski
        
        No. See the issue here, is that sitting down and reading a book are not mutually exclusive actions. However both shutting up, and explaining the joke are as you can see, at odds as the direction of the first prohibits the second.
- LinkMan
  
  Chronic ailment? Is that what the kids are calling Mormonism these days?
- Chupate esa
  
  why you choose to take everything so serious? its not like she is going into hospitals and telling that joke to patients of cancer. just chill man.
http://bookstorebloggerconxn.com/ redhead

must. have.
http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

I was just reading Henry Rollins “Get In The Van”, his diary of 5 years on tour with Black Flag, and you can pinpoint where and when he became a “coffee achiever”: he’s in a coffee shop in Madison WI, and is amazed that the shop only serves coffee, and fancy tasty coffee at that (“Man this coffee is righteous!” he exclaims.) A year later when the Flag tours through Wisconsin again he hits up the same shop, orders a whole pot of coffee and when the waitress asks “How many cups with that?” he says “one”. . . she gives him a look and replies “have fun.”
swagv

Because nothing says “imaginatively cute and clever” like printing profanity on a T-shirt or coffee mug.
http://twitter.com/BjornHulman Bjorn Hulman

You can find equally amusing mugs here. http://goodfuckingdesignadvice.bigcartel.com/category/mugs
I love this site
http://www.facebook.com/roland.dorau Roland Dorau

Can you translate this into german for me pls.
Coffee ok fucking ok – but the connection i do not get!??
- SamSam
  
  Well, when a person and coffee really love each other, and they decide that they want to show their love in a physical way…
- http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop
  
  It is common for protesters in the U.S. to do a chant like this–
  Leader: What do we want?
  Protesters: Justice! (or Equality, or whatever that protest is about)
  Leader: When do we want it?
  Protesters: Now!
  
  This mug makes a joke about people who love coffee so much that they are violent without it.
  Leader: What do we want?
  Protesters: Coffee!
  Leader: When do we want it?
  Protesters (wanting coffee NOW! No time for chanting!): I’ll fucking cut/stab/kill you!
  
  I hope that helps. :)
Vnend

The call and response part of this interests me. Since I have been a fan of ‘Buckaroo Bansai…’ and have friends who are as well, the related “Where are we going?” followed by “When are we going?” got a lot of milage.

But, seeing the same ‘straight answer’ then ‘humorous answer’, makes me wonder how far back does this go? What are some other examples of it?

Any happy mutants in the know on this one?