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Post #660328 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Dec 2, 2012 12:15 AM

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On 2012-11-30 14:01, White Devil wrote:

God damn your luck, sir! God damn it indeed.

These are indeed rare, and not to diminish the find, but I personally cannot warm to these later versions of the Don mug. Call me racist, but the pudgy almond-eyed Asian face just seems so wrong, compared to the youthful beach boy look of the original:

To wit, neither one of them is any more "authentic" than the other as a depiction of the man, as they hail from the later, Getty Corp-owned phase of the chain.

That Dobbs Luau menu is great, note that the cocktails are all (x-ept the fog cutter) served in Trader Vic's-originated drinking vessels.