Making Amends with the Legal Underground Coffee Mug

What am I going to do with my 72 Legal Underground coffee mugs? It seems to me that in the 15+ months that this weblog has (dis)graced the blogosphere, I've taken a lot of cheap shots. You know, low blows. Easy laughs. Unfair and undeserved mockery of perfectly innocent people.

There have been plenty of targets. Most of them I like, two of them I don't. But they're all getting a coffee mug. The only one who will complain about my gift-giving is my secretary, who'll be responsible for boxing them up and shipping them out.

Here's who's getting a coffee mug, and why.

• Justice Antonin Scalia, for this post: "Justice Antonin Scalia to Get Own Reality TV Show."
• Judge Richard Posner of the Becker-Posner Blog, for these posts: "Advice to Federal Judges #3" and "A Polite, Though Extraordinarily Serious, Dissent from the Becker-Posner Definition of the Term 'Weblog'."
• Walter Olson of Overlawyered, for this post: "The Experienced Lawyer and the Law Student Debate Overlawyered.com."
  
• Ted Frank, Olson's sidekick at Overlawyered and frequent commenter on this weblog, for this post: "The Official McDonald's-Coffee-Post-Commenter Awards."
• Jim Copland of Point of Law, for this post: "The Experienced Lawyer and the Law Student Debate Point of Law."
• Howard Bashman of How Appealing, for this post: "Howard Bashman's Daily To-Do List."
• Drama critic Terry Teachout of About Last Night, for this post: "Critic Terry Teachout Consumes Too Much Art, Violently Explodes."
• Professor Ann Althouse of Althouse, for this post: "Law Professors: Blog Your Way to Tenure."
• Professor Glenn Reynolds a/k/a Instapundit, for these posts: "Advice to Young Lawyers #18," and "Advice to Families of Lawyer's #7."
  
• Dennis Kennedy of DennisKennedy.blog, for this post: "Tragedy Strikes Blawging World: Fifty of the Best Perish."
• Matt Homann of the [non]billable hour, for the same.

Finally, although I don't like the next and last two recipients, I figure they could use a reminder to read my weblog: the American Tort Reform Association (this post) and the Madison County Record (this post).

After the 13 mugs go out, I'm still left with 59. The next five people to leave a suggestion in the comments about what to do with the remainder can have two each. Then I'll be down to only 49, an amount I think I can persuade the garbage man to haul away.

Comments

[Mike]

Hey, Evan, why don't you give three to each of your readers. That should leave you with one left over.

[Howard Bashman]

Wow, you write a wonderful post about me, and months later, in honor of that post, I get rewarded with a rare and invaluable coffee mug. It's a true win-win situation.

[Mark]

Boy, don't I feel stupid. That's what I get for not reading your entire post. Instead of sending a mug to bashman, send him two, to reward him 2x since I independently suggested sending him a mug.

[Rayne of Terror]

I'll trade you one mug for one of my husband's band's cds! We have several hundred in the basement. Heck I'll trade you a box of Senor DeVivo cds for a mug. He sells them for $8 and the last two were shipped to Germany at a few dollars a pop, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind the trade. BTW I've worked the Madison County fair on behalf of State Senate candidates. That should count for something as it is darn hot in the river valley.

[Welch]

Evan, how about a mug for each of your past clients who have been deprived of 40% of their recovery.

[Evan]

Welch: I think you're onto something, although I don't necessarily agree with the premise. My past clients have all seemed pretty happy when I've sent them nothing but fat settlement checks. By adding a mug to the mix, however, they'd never be able to forget me. I'll think about it.

[JR]

Evan: When you send those mugs to past clients you better make sure the word "advertisement" is conspicuously printed somewhere. You don't want Prof. Yabut coming after you.

[Evan]

Abnu, Mark, Mackenzie, and Nathan: Please e-mail me your mailing address. The commenter formerly known as "whomever" already e-mailed me separately with his real identity, so he's taken care of.

Once I get all these mugs out of the way, perhaps I'll send some to other commenters. I appreciate all the good suggestions!

[Evan]

Rayne of Terror: I can't find your e-mail on your weblog and I'd like to discuss your offer. Please e-mail me.

[Michael Scaljon]

i'd send one to Jim Dedman because he IS the internets.

[Gail]

How about sending one to Bill Frist? He's going to need lots and lots of coffee with that "filibuster of faith" event coming up.

[celia]

Stuff 'em with candy (dark chocolate, preferably) and send one to everyone who has ever mentioned your blog!

[Jeff Rhodes]

I'm sure your mugs are gone,but if not I have a coffee house called the
Uderground coffeehose and eatery.I'd like some mugs.

[MB Champagne]

Please email me, I would like a mug! I have a collection. How much are they?