Rustic Nostalgia Mugs

Sir Gawain Fitzwaugh, Rust in Peace

Large print rock'n'roll section

Rock and Roll

Meticulously prepared, locally sourced food served on artifacts of a romanticized industrial past, by people who take their fashion cues from daguerreotypes, to adults whose parents still pay their rent.

'They were going to get married when they were young, but he kept forgetting the wedding date!'

"The record player is skipping again."

'Gotta hang up now. My mom wants to recycle the phone.'

"I thought you might like to hear how my love-making sounded when I was a younger man."

"All those years studying mayhem. All that postgraduate work in looting and pillaging; and here I am, rowing the friggin' boat."

"What ever became of the days, Béla, when we all used to dance with wild abandon by the firelight."

'Rorschach multiple-choice test'

"Lenny's right. Calling it 'an opportunity to reach a new generation of listeners' has a better ring to it than 'total sellout'."

"Forty years ago on this very seat I proposed to you. Made up your mind yet?"

'Miss Wayson, find out who put this computer on my desk and tell them to get it the hell out of here!'

'We like to keep old timers involved in our expansion.'

Teddy organ grinder

No assembly required.

A call to save energy, based loosely on the style of second world war posters

'Remind me again darling - what were we just arguing about?'

"The sixties are over, Ralph. The seventies and the eighties, for God's sake, are over. Give it a rest!"

Existentialist Amnesia Clinic

'Don't worry about communications being offline ... we kept on Old Stoney from the Pony Express.'

'I'm glad I'm past the adorable stage. That was a lot of pressure!'

Church in the year 2035.

'Here's a song about a girl that seemed a lot less creepy when we wrote it 34 years ago.'

"We've known each other for a while now, so I feel it's the right time to ask – are you a psychological manifestation of my nostalgic longing of a romanticised past?"

"Sell all my stocks and buy lots of old comic books instead!"

"A reunion tour sounds good. Assuming we can afford the extra bus to haul your medication."

'Mmm that's a bit different for 8:45.'

"I just want to meet an old fashioned woman who still believes in using fax machines."