Quote: Griff @ August 28 2008, 7:26 PM BSTI also tend to buy mugs as souvenirs from foreign trips, so I've got a Kafka mug from Prague, one from Route 66, one from Vegas etc. (You can say what you like about Americans but they make good quality mugs.)
I do that too. Although I always use them.
And in your mug would be?
Pictures Dabutt!!!!!! Pictures!!!!!!!
Quote: Nil Putters @ August 28 2008, 7:19 PM BST@DaButt - I need photo evidence!!!
Let's see if this works ...
I'm famous!
Yay! Hiya Ronald. Oh, and look, I'm on tele (well a pc anyway). \0/
Would that be tea? Or coffee?
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2008, 7:32 PM BSTOoh, I have a pint glass from The Ronald Reagan Pub, too! If I remember correctly, Reagan visited a pub in Ireland and they named it after him. It closed a few years ago, so they removed the interior and reassembled it at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. I was overjoyed to see Guinness signs in the distance, but it turned out they were only for show and no beer was served.
The best part of the library is the Reagan-era Air Force One jet. It was fun to walk through such an historic aircraft.
So these aren't so much libraries as museums...?
Quote: Nil Putters @ August 28 2008, 7:38 PM BSTWould that be tea? Or coffee?
It would have been coffee in the past, but I found that caffeine gives me heart palpitations, so now I boil water in the microwave for my morning oatmeal.
Quote: Aaron @ August 28 2008, 7:40 PM BSTSo these aren't so much libraries as museums...?
Both, actually. All of the former president's papers and other relics of his administration are housed there. Tourists look at the nifty presidential stuff while scholars use the library's holdings for research, etc.
Presidential libraries are massive buildings and the cost (hundreds of millions, I'd suppose) is paid for by private donations.
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2008, 7:46 PM BSTIt would have been coffee in the past, but I found that caffeine gives me heart palpitations, so now I boil water in the microwave for my morning oatmeal.
Bloody hell mate, was it you who was allergic to peanuts aswell? Bummer.
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2008, 7:46 PM BST(hundreds of millions, I'd suppose)
I just looked up Clinton's new library - it cost $165 million to construct.
Quote: Nil Putters @ August 28 2008, 7:49 PM BSTBloody hell mate, was it you who was allergic to peanuts aswell? Bummer.
Yeah, and I love coffee and peanuts. 
That sucks!
My bestest mugz.
A very blurry, and therefore postable, pic of me and my fave mug.
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2008, 7:46 PM BSTBoth, actually. All of the former president's papers and other relics of his administration are housed there. Tourists look at the nifty presidential stuff while scholars use the library's holdings for research, etc.
Presidential libraries are massive buildings and the cost (hundreds of millions, I'd suppose) is paid for by private donations.
Ahhh I seee. It sounds like 'archive' would be a far more fitting name for them, but I get the idea. Cool cool. 
Quote: DaButt @ August 28 2008, 7:51 PM BSTYeah, and I love coffee and peanuts.
That does suck.
Didn't realise Clinton had so many books. 
Quote: zooo @ August 28 2008, 8:00 PM BSTA very blurry, and therefore postable, pic of me and my fave mug.
Be still, my beating heart. 
Quote: zooo @ August 28 2008, 8:00 PM BST
But that quarter of you looks so very prettyful!
Indeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed.