Topic awaiting preservation: Attention all coffee drinkers!! Science needs you!!

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Britain's Royal Society of Chemistry is looking for the most spectacular--or, depending on how you view such things, disgusting--growth of mold to be found in an unwashed coffee mug.

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www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mold04.html

[edit: Ah nuts:

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Sorry, but the contest is limited to Britain.

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but that doesn't mean people can't throw in their disgusting coffee cup stories (and there are plenty of Brits here so....)]

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Emps

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heh:

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Photos only are being accepted, not actual mugs.

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what a pity, i already wanted to send my mug to the uk!
since i am addicted to coffee, i might give this a try. thx for that, emps

Damn !!! Just did this years washing up !!

OOOoohhhh... i have quite a nasty one growing right now...as a matter of fact...if i nudge the cup, little plumes of mold spores rise out of it. it's kinda cool.
i'll hafta see if i can't snap a pic or two

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Cell 1007::

That is disgusting!!! I can't wait to see the pics though

. . : slicePuzzle

Do coffee pots count too? Or is it only limited to mugs?

even if they don't count for them you should snap some pics for us


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Cell 1007::

Oh I love it when you get the plumes from the powder on top of the leathery mold that is still sitting on top of the liquid coffee in your decanter. It's sealed to the glass so tightly that you have to scrape it off and even then it isn't all coming off. After a while you just say, "Meh, it adds flavor and now I know why I don't get sick," and give up.

My latest mug ran away after i told him he would need to be washed.
The newly developed living thing in it did not like the idea.
I am pretty shure the creature is not classified by any biologist yet....

So if youy see a very fast moving mug it's doc stealing coffee or it's my on the run mug.
Either way say that it "has to be returned to the respectfull owner ASAP"

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"Art has to be forgotten. Beauty must be realized."
Piet Mondriaan

Hehe, I left half full cup of coffee on the back porch for over a year at one of the share houses I lived in. The best part, is that it wasn't my mug, it was my house mates. Heh, we had an ongoing debat about it. He wated his mug back but refused to touch it in that state. I said it was his mug and not my problem, thus is sat there untill we moved out at which point we just binned it.

Sooooooo come on people lets see your ugly mugs!!

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

dracusis: lol.

unfortunatly, the local thought police (->gf) makes me wash up any cups when their hot, tasty, bitter contents have been drunk...

I prefer not to let mold grow anywhere, much less in my coffee cup! I think it tastes better without it...

However, this puts me in mind of a Red Dwarf book I read once... If I recall correctly, one of those guys was growing something in his coffee mug, and it had a name...
Some one help with that one... I know someone else has read it!



Cell 617

"But kryten! You threw out my mould! His name was Barry, I was growing him to be 2 feet high!"

"But why sir?"

"Becuase it drive Rimmer nuts! And driving Rimmer nuts is the only thing that keeps me sane!"

lol, red dwarf is classic stuff, i'm sure i could find a mouldy mug lurking around my room, i'll investigate tonight

ok...i've got pictures...but you can't see them
actually...my dog chewed the cord for my digital camera. so i'm hoping to get time to run out to wally world and see if i can get another one. it was quite nasty...and i even tipped it a bit so a lil bit of liquid would ooze through

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Poor, Zeus. I bet you ripped him good for that one. I also am without good mold pictures. I fight against the domesticating affects fo my wife but, well, you know... guys have weaknesses.

We would have had great photos of colorful mold - but we cleaned the carafe just before this topic was posted. Give us a couple weeks - we'll have more!

*Moon Dancer stalks off down the hall and snorts, "domesticating effects, pah."