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[Ya-ta Boy]

Hallelujah and pass the collection plate, boys and girls! I'm in the presence of a genuine certifiable miracle.

When I arrived here at my new job, the teachers gave me a welcoming gift. Unfortunately, it is ugly. It is a very ugly hand-made coffee cup. Kind of gray with some little white flowers and swirly things on the side. A fat and rough handle with a sharp edge on one side and a rim that is curled over so far that the tea has a tendancy to spill out.

Anyway, since it was a gift I had no choice but to use the damn thing. It wasn't so much a problem while the weather was hot because I didn't drink anything but ice water out of it. But since it got cold I've been drinking hong cha every day, mostly to have something hot to hold in my hands and warm them up. (The heat is on, but there is no insulation so the office is still cold.)

After a couple of weeks of drinking hong cha I noticed that the outside of the cup felt sticky. So I rinsed the cup inside and out. It helped some but only for a day or two. This morning before I made a fresh cup of tea I had to dump out the tea I didn't drink last Friday. Then I made my tea and noticed the outside was really sticky. When I sat down at my desk again I noticed that the outside has hundreds of little bubbles all over. It can't be anything but sticky reddish-brown hong cha seeping through the ceramic stuff and making bubbles.

I've got an e-mail off to the Pope to see if I can get my cup declared a saint. With any luck at all I can make a killing off the pilgrims who will come here to witness the miracle. If any of you less stable posters would like to make a pilgrimage down here, I'd be more than willing to crack you up side the head to see if my cup has any curative powers vis a vis mental weakness.

[JongnoGuru]

Wild! I wouldn't think hong cha would be particularly _sticky_ though. (Okay, if you put sugar or honey in it, then yes.) And I wonder, How strong the tea would it have to be for so small an amount as might leak from the cup to actually appear reddish-brown? No, that's the blood of the Christ-man you got oozing from your coffee cup, and your next step is to build it a shrine and an official website.

But the basic plot-line (minus the undeniable Miracle) reminds me of the hand-made ceramic coffee cup I was given years ago by my then-secretary's son. Crudely fashioned, greenish grey, unmistakably Korean in every way. The handle, like yours sounds to be, was also abnormally fat and cylindrical. For water or juice or anything cold, it was fine. But if you used it to drink coffee or tea, it was the most impractical cup ever invented. The handle (as I was to discover) was hollow (!) and so, of course, if you put anything very hot in this "coffee" cup, the handle was literally too hot to handle. It could make a fairly good "practical joke cup", like the dribble glass or something.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

I saw Christ on a cracker, once.

[Hobophobic]

I got one of those also...the teachers at the school went on a camping trip and brought it back for me

....they claim it is a 'healssi cupuh' has some natural healing capabilities and such...a special cup...

...personally I use mine for coffee and never have to wash it as it is a mix of cream and gray anyhow( I like to keep the aging flavors)

...if you look close it has wee bitty holes...in these holes is the magic so I am told...

Maybe yours is the real deal though...good luck!

[JongnoGuru]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Miracle up-date:

I took the risk of washing off the blood from the outside. Made some fresh tea, and voila! Insto-presto! The blood appeared on the outside again.

[Hobophobic]

What..