Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 06, 2024

He needs a blue tooth coffee spigot installed in the cup.

A braver man than me!

He should glue a magnet in the base of that bottle so it doesn’t fall off the roof of his car when he’s driving.

Dr. Spaetzle has a PhD.

Six most traded commodities: crude oil, natural gas, gold, silver, copper and, wait for it, COFFEE!

Twenty minutes? Pfft! What an amateur! I’m on my third cup by then.

Mr Spaetzle use that cup because it is drip proof! Mostly. Sometimes.

My two vacuum insulated stainless steel cups will keep my coffee hot for about an hour, and drinkably warm for another hour and a half. I run hot water into them to preheat the metal before pouring. But, I think now temperature vs time needs to be graphed. I have a recording thermometer and Excel.

I have a vacuum-separation mug I use for cocoa. It can take more than an hour for what’s inside to cool down, and that’s if I don’t close the spout.

In a strange turn of events, I’ve never had a cup of coffee go cold on me either. Then again, I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my life….

It takes 20 minutes to drink something?

That was what I thought when he said it never got cold.

Mfg’s always promise impossible hot or cold times but I never owned one that kept truly hot for longer than an hour or two, even when carried in an insulated bag. And cold is just a matter of the few degrees between room temp and air temp unless ice is added. Even putting in frig for an hour before doesn’t seem to make a lot of difference in cold hold.

But then mfg’s hype their goods well beyond true values, and, like the med ads, and their caveats are in the fine print that can’t be read by humans.

The best insulated mugs I have found are the Bubba brand. I like the old-style Hero mugs. They “improved” the Hero, but the new ones are not as good.

If you put boiling hot tea in an old-style Hero mug and seal it up, you can burn your tongue on it a couple of hours later.

Amateur. My coffee might last five minutes.

He is a principal. He needs his jet fuel?!

Wawa and 7-11 and Dunkin and places like those used to sell big mugs (20 ounces up to 64 ounces), with lids you could drink through, that were microwave reheatable. (Yes, I’m a barbarian who reheats coffee.) My old ones are wearing out, and no one seems to sell those anymore—they all have stainless steel in them and thus are not microwave safe. Anyone know where I can get a mug like that now?

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the natives take great pride in sheer size. One rancher was bragging on his spread: “Why, I can get in my truck at the crack of dawn and it takes me till past noon to reach the far side of it.”

“Yup,” remarked his listener, “I had me a truck like that once, too.”

A big tech company was looking for its next CEO, and they’d narrowed it down to 3 finalists, whom they had in for a final interview, one after another, to answer a single question: “What was the most important technological invention of the 20th Century?”

The first one said it was nuclear fission and gave a detailed analysis of its prospects for clean energy without pollution as well as its dangers.

The second one said it was the Internet, because it would supplant the previous social paradigms of agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce with a new one of information.

The committee agreed that the first two candidates were indeed impressive but were eager to hear what the third one had to say. It was short and sweet: “The thermos bottle.”

“The thermos bottle?” came the perplexed response. “But all IT does is keep hot things hot and cold things cold!”

“Ah, but how do it KNOW?”

But maybe it is a high-tech super bottle …

amazonDOTcom/s?k=usb+heat+mug

Hopefully that new cup keeps him from spilling it quite so much.

But he always lugs his bottle/mug with him leaving a dribble trail. That means he must be refilling it every 20 Minutes and there would be a visible path of wear between his office and the next restroom.

There are thermo mugs with a heating element and a rechargeable battery.

So do I. Can’t stand lukewarm coffee!

Uncle Louie bought another case of whiskey every time he went into the big city. Cousin Ralph asked him if he thought he might be an alcoholic? Louie said he didn’t know, he had never run out.

I pour hot water in mine, seal and wait 2 minutes, pour it out and put the mug on the Keurig, stays hot about two hours, enough to read a few comic strips then do it over.

Does he have to drain his bladder 20 minutes after that?

What, the coffee grounds?