Post #179695 by midnite on Mon, Aug 15, 2005 12:47 AM

any thoughts

Never take counsel of your fears.
Andrew Jackson

Oh, I see, thoughts on this mug? I'm telling ya, I ain't too quick on the draw. I am petty much just trying to walk upright and not be afraid of fire.

It's a common mug, as you are obviously aware. So this specimen is unmarked but has an interesting story? Well, my pal Melvin and I were driving across the desert one night, picked up a decrepit old dude, gave him a lift into town. All he had to offer us for the hospitality was a Tiki Leilani mug he had used in toasting undying love to innumerable starlets, among them Ava Gardner and Jean Harlow. That mug, or, he would put us in his will(said he was worth billions). I like Tiki, took the mug. Ole Melvin opted for inclusion in the codger's last testament. Melvin was always an easy mark and he didn't believe the story about Ava Gardner. Jean Harlow, sure, she was loose, but Ava had style he said and would never go for that pseudo-eternal love Tiki b.s. I don't know, I was always more of a Rita Hayworth man.

You may get other replies along the line of "Oh, it's worth what you're willing to pay." That typical watered-down pablum passing as reasoned counsel these days just makes me embarrassed to be an American. You shalln't get that from me. Nuh uh, Mogambo, I didn't go to 'Nam and lose a good portion of my cerebral cortex for that type of response. I take a stand and do it with flair. With me you get buxom Hollywood starlets and the straight dope, the skinny, the dirt, the real McCoy, the low-down, the...ok, what was the question?

Twelve dollars. It's worth twelve dollars. With shipping.

"Sell the sizzle, buy the steak. Why buy the cow if you want the chicken to cross the road?"
midnite