“I didn’t choose the mug life. The mug life chose me” is a jocular coffee saying that has been printed on many images. The pun is on the term “thug life.”
“I didn’t chose the mug life, the mug life chose me!” was posted on Facebook by Dear Cup of Coffee on July 28, 2012. The saying probably comes from an image.
Facebook
Dear Cup of Coffee shared their photo.
July 28, 2012 ·
I didn’t chose the mug life, the mug life chose me!
Twitter
heather nicole
@FeatherNicole45
I didn’t choose the mug life… The mug life chose me
8:58 PM - 9 Aug 2012
Twitter
Card
@Card_NotSo_Well
I didn’t choose the Mug Life, the Mug Life chose me. @keatyd http://instagr.am/p/OJ-H-XzPCh/
1:23 PM - 10 Aug 2012
Twitter
Joshua Santillan
@joshesantillan
“I didn’t choose the mug life, the mug life chose me.” - the worst brand of root beer on the planet, honestly it’s awful.
6:43 PM - 11 Aug 2012
Twitter
Iry Zee
@ranjitprime
I didn’t choose the mug life. The mug life chose me… http://instagr.am/p/OPA-Nstyxw/
12:24 PM - 12 Aug 2012
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I Didn’t Choose The Mug Life
– SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
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I didn’t choose the mug life the mug life chose me.
Reddit—Funny
I didnt choose Mug-Life, Mug-Life chose me (i.imgur.com)
submitted December 12, 2012 by [deleted]
Reddit—Pics
I didn’t choose the Mug life, the mug life chose me (i.imgur.com)
submitted December 18, 2014 by PM_YOUR_MUGS
Jezebel
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Bobby Finger
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2. I didn’t choose the mug life. The mug life chose me.
Twitter
Steve Nixon
@snixon
I didn’t choose the mug life. The mug life chose me. #coffee #saturday #sportsorconsequences https://www.instagram.com/p/BkXowenhCeO/?utm_source=ig_twitter_share&igshid=1l8jhztojw5gu …
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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