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Add a touch of whimsy to your favorite drink and toasts with this latte mug, which features the humorous observation "Graphic Designers are Optimists. For Us, The Grass *is* Always Greener." As a graphic designer, I have been asked the question "is it really that [insert your colour of choice]" many times. The real in-joke/off-color remark (pun intended)/inference here being "did you oversaturate your primary colours?" The perfect "novelty" mug for image manipulation wizards!

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Funny Quote: Graphic Designers are Optimists Latte Mug

I'm an unashamed fan of elevator music, and this striking latte mug features this (recent) personal literal and metaphorical epiphany against a metallic colored elevator background with up, down, and numbered buttons for added whimsical effect.

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Funny Elevator Music Pushes All My Buttons Latte Mug

We stand together by staying apart. Life is full of contradictions, isn't it? This is my (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) observation about how humanity, as members of the collective global village, is going to get through what appears to be the greatest recent challenge--on so many fronts--of our recent times. 

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Ironic We Stand Together By Staying Apart Latte Mug

Offer inspiration with this latte mug, which features the uplifting words/advice "Chase your dreams" in a combination of handwritten and elegant serif lettering.

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Inspirational Quote Chase Your Dreams Latte Mug

Add a touch of whimsy to your favorite drink and toasts with this latte mug, which features the quirky quote "If you can sing and dance, you're probably a bird." Be the envy of your vocally-challenged and/or tone deaf friends with this novelty mug. The perfect gift idea for bird nerds!

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Funny Quote: If You Can Sing and Dance ... Latte Mug

Add a touch of nature and whimsy to your favorite drink with this striking latte mug, which features a word art design of the drinking salutation "cheers" in many different languages! 

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Colorful Word Art Cheers in Many Languages Latte Mug

Long-term Mac users may be well acquainted with the red screen of death (RSOD), the Mac equivalent to the PC-based OS "blue screen of death" (BSOD). This is my tongue-in-cheek haiku tribute to the RSOD.

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Funny Haiku to the Red Screen of Death Latte Mug

No matter what language you speak, "blessings" is a powerful word and benediction, rendered in a colorful multi-lingual tag cloud on a white background.

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Colorful Blessings Word Cloud in Many Languages Pillar Candle

A great (wedding proposal) pillow for lexicologists with a sense of humor, scientists, the scientifically minded, or those contemplating a career in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines.  

This design features the tongue-in-cheek quote "You and I are meant to be cuz we've got the most amazing chemistry" rendered around a molecular 2D representation/formula for oxytocin, the "cuddle chemical". Reverse shows identical design.

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Funny  Meant to Be We've Got Amazing Chemistry Throw Pillow

With more letters in its name than the English alphabet (36, to be exact), hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (on the front), is the perfect shirt for English teachers, linguists, word nerds, glottologists, logophiles, and lexicomanes! The meaning of this very long word? Fear of long words.

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Funny Run if You Fear Long Words T-Shirt

Part brainteaser, part assemble-it-yourself art, this contemplative yet challenging puzzle is great for improving muscle memory.

Be inspired with this motivational quote, "Music is poetry for the soul", which accompanies an original photo I took of a violin laid across a kitchen slate floor and vignetted in post-processing.

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Elegant Vignetted Violin on Slate Tile Jigsaw Puzzle

This is a great way to recognize the individual who was the original architect for your first "home", with this funny novelty shirt, which features the job title "Giant Dollhouse Builder" in an all-caps, grunge/felt-marker-type font. Great for Father's Day (or dad's birthday)! 

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Funny Giant Dollhouse Builder Hashtag Busy Dad T-Shirt

Summarize the dreams of (just about) every creative and POD designer with this funny novelty jumbo coffee mug, which features the humorous wish, "I just want to create, get paid, and sip pina coladas."

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Funny I Just Want to Create, Get Paid, and Sip ... Giant Coffee Mug

Pseudo-embossed on a photo tile with a faux teal-tinged granite texture, this inspirational quote, "hoc facite hodie, quod cras non venit." translates from Latin to English as "do it today because tomorrow never comes". Or carpe diem ("seize the day").

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Latin Hoc Facite Hodie, Quod Cras Non Venit Peel And Stick Photo Tile

If your fearless curve wins points for you in ping pong, then this punny table tennis paddle, which features the "royal title" of "The Slice Queen" (a little word play on / verbal poke at "The Ice Queen") rendered in flowing script against a pink glittery background, is perfect for you! 

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Funny Quote: Graphic Designers are Optimists Latte Mug

Funny Quote: Graphic Designers are Optimists Latte Mug

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Other coffee mugs from various stores