File this under “performance art.”
An email from Rick Mansfield of This Lamp (used with permission):
This afternoon, I got home at the same time as Kathy and as we walked up to our front door, she saw the CaféPress package waiting for us. "OH! Did you get me something from CaféPress?" she asked with all the excitement of a little girl on her birthday.
"Well, not exactly," I replied. "But I’ll share it with you."
Now, David, I don’t want your feelings to be hurt, but Kathy doesn’t read your blog. She’s not familiar with the hippo cult or lingapotomi. So, when I opened the mug, she looked aghast. "Did you buy that straight for the garage sale?! That’s got to be one of the ugliest mugs I’ve ever seen! What money did you pay for that with?"
Forgive her, David. She doesn’t have any context for it. And you have to imagine that for the uninitiated, it would seem a bit bizarre.
I tried to find a positive side to all of it. On the bottom, it says, "Made in China." Since we are adopting a little girl from China, I said, "Look, Honey–it’s made in China!"
"That probably means you’ll get lead poisoning then!"
But as for me, as you can see in the picture, your mug is already giving rise to deep thoughts as I sip and contemplate the universe. I’ll let you know if I have any breakthroughs.
Rick
To order your very own lingapotamus mug, go here: Hippo Cult Schwag
And don’t forget to send in your hand-drawn hippo before midnight Monday.
Is that really, Rick?
Eek! Identity theft, you suppose?!?
Why, I think I’ll get myself one for my upcoming 30th birthday!
Email me your mailing address and a bday present is heading your way.
now that’s delightful, I’ll have to pick one up sometime!
And where is the option for the lingopotamus underwear?
lingapotami live life comfortably in their own skin. You should too.
I feel a cartoon coming on: Kathy Mansfield meets the lingapotamus. I hope he doesn’t mistake her too for a snake in the grass. Shame I can’t draw.
Peter, did you just call my wife a “snake in the grass”?
Get out your pen, Rick and doodle your revenge. I’m already planning a doodle of Kathy stepping on a lingapotamus.
David, I can hardly believe that you, a man of the cloth, just advised me to go without cloth.
No, Rick, just a hippophobe trying to hide in the grass. She is wise to hide – your revenge will be nothing to that of the lingapotamus!
Iyov, if it was good enough for Adam…
I will send you my mailing address (and by the way, I need yours), but know that you really needn’t send anything.
And I say, come on, give Iyov his lingapotamus g-string!