paper slurpee cup and pink stroon!

I, like Betsy, assume the Buffistas are the fount of all knowledge and will eventually tell me what you do with a pimp cup. My geekyist cup is the one from Westinghouse that I got after a pressurized water reactor course. It's got gold trim, but I don't think that's going to move me into pimp cup territory.

and will eventually tell me what you do with a pimp cup

Well, the super-Catholic pimps bring theirs to Mass to drink the wine at Communion. That way, no getting colds from their fellow communicants.

I'm drinking out of a water bottle. Which will soon have to be refilled, because I bit into something REALLY hot in my burrito just a second ago, and am now gulping down water like it's going out of style.

I think sarameg's award (in addition, of course, to money and possibly a pimp cup) should include giving her a year's free use of a troupe of interpretive dancers following her around performing full-body emoticons expressing her very essence to all and sundry. And possibly a publicist and a surly bodyguard to punch out the paparazzi.

It will be very, very hard to walk past Court Glade at the RenFaire this year, because every time I see a crowd of nobles lifting their jewel-encrusted wine glasses in yet another endless toast to the Queen, the little everpresent voice in my head will be saying, "Gracious, what a lot of pimp cups!"

lisa, thanks for the offer of help. We'll be in contact.

has Strindberg and Helium been mentioned here yet? I love Helium.

surly bodyguard to punch out the paparazzi.

And then I can have surly bodyguard punch out the troup and publicist and anyone caught staring!

I love Helium.

"Heeeeelium!" "I'm dead, too."

I wish they'd do more of those.

Sorry, but the surly bodyguard and the troupe have an understanding, so no dancer-punching. But the dancers could possibly be enticed into dancing in a large and protective circle around you, thus enforcing your personal privacy zone, and possibly also sending out helpful interpretive-dance moves to those outside the zone, such as the poignant classical pas de huit entitled "sarameg's monetary award was woundingly small, you stingy bastards, but it's not too late to make it up to her" or the edgier modernist "Send more pimp cups."

Does it go with the cowgirl hat?

Sadly, no. But it could work with one or more of my fake-fur coats, if I had sufficient bling. Betsy, a pimp cup is always appropriate -- in your limo, in the club, on the red carpet, at Target. Where ever.

I think sarameg's award (in addition, of course, to money and possibly a pimp cup) should include giving her a year's free use of a troupe of interpretive dancers following her around performing full-body emoticons expressing her very essence to all and sundry.

OMG the HAR.