Mugs With Famous Quotes

People getting older become more fond of objects. I think this is true. Particular things. A leather-bound book, a piece of furniture, a photograph, a painting, the frame that holds the painting. These things make the past seem permanent. A baseball signed by a famous player, long dead. A simple coffee mug. Things we trust. They tell an important story. A person’s life, all those who entered and left, there’s a depth, a richness.

Hollywood High School was flipping from the storied institute of legend to the high school of the barrio. Or, as CNN put it in a series of rave reviews for the “predominantly Latino” school: “Hollywood High Now a Diverse High School.” Hollywood High alumni include Cher, Carol Burnett, Lon Chaney, James Garner, Linda Evans, John Huston, Judy Garland, Ricky Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker, John Ritter, Mickey Rooney, Lana Turner, and Fay Wray, among many others. By the mid-2000s, Hollywood High was more than 70 percent Hispanic,5 and students were less likely to be getting publicity shots than mug shots. Today the school is mostly famous for its stabbings, shootings, child molestations, thefts, and graffiti.6 Around 1990, a California TV producer trying to enroll a German exchange student in a Los Angeles high school asked the principal at Fairfax High if a foreign exchange student would be better served by Fairfax or Hollywood High. Without looking up, the principal replied, “Well, 90% of my students can speak English, and we haven’t had a shooting here in 5 years.

Celebrities are like the perpetrators of crime in that they appear out of nowhere when you least expect it and are usually gone before you know what's happened.

Microwaved Mug Pancake   Pancakes are known to almost everyone around the globe. Of course, it's not that all people like them, but are indeed familiar with this famous recipe and those who adore them can now enjoy in this quick, 1 minute recipe.   Yields: 1 Mug   Ingredients: 1 Oz of milk ¼ cup of Bisquick   Method of preparation: Mix in your mug Bisquick and milk with a fork, for a couple of seconds. Microwave it for 1 minute. Take it out of the microwave and serve with some syrup.