THE MEANING OF MUG INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:
* A type of container, usually ceramic, with a handle, usually used for drinking or shaving.
* Mug Root Beer, a beverage brand;
* Someone's face, especially in "MUG shot,"
* A picture of the face;
* A contraction of "metric slug," a rarely-used unit of mass;
* To "MUG up" means to study intensely; "I mugged up on the meaning of road signs before taking my driving test."
* To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis;
* to make a face;
* To pose for photographs in an exaggerated or affected manner.
The acronym MUG may refer to:
* Macintosh User Group
* 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-glucuronide, a chemical used to test for the presence of E. Coli bacteria.
* MUMPS User Group (MUMPS is now the M programming language).
* Multi User Game, a less specific classification for an online role playing game than others in the MU* genre.
THE MEANING OF MOPE INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:
Besides "gloomy or dejected, or “to brood or sulk," or “to move in a leisurely or aimless manner; dawdle," MOPE can also be "a person given to gloomy or dejected moods."
MOPE is an acronym for "Most Oppressed People Ever", a derogatory term used in political discourse in Northern Ireland.
It is used to refer to those in both communities, Unionist and Nationalist, who act or appear to act as though the suffering endured by their respective communities is without comparison.
By ALLUSION (an indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work, the nature and relevance of which is not explained by the writer but relies on the reader's familiarity with what is thus mentioned) -- MOPE is a reference to "Unionism," in Ireland -- the belief in the desirability of a full constitutional and institutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain based on the terms and order of government of the Act of Union 1800 which had merged both countries in 1801 to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (the successor entities being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State).
The term MOPE owes its origins to the campaigns by opponents of Irish home rule in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to prevent the creation of an all-Ireland home rule parliament within the United Kingdom.
Because of their desire to maintain the Act of Union as created in 1800, without any system of devolution, they came to be known as Unionists.
Some believe that the Unionist opposition to home rule was not simply based on a desire for a different structure for governance, but reflected a fundamental difference in perspective, beliefs, definition and culture between Irish Nationalists and Unionists.
Whereas Nationalists were predominantly, but not exclusively, Roman Catholic, Unionists were predominantly, but not universally, Protestant. Almost all were descendants of English and Scottish settlers who arrived in the province of Ulster, especially from the Plantation of Ulster, in the early 17th century, onwards.
So your contention that MUG or MOPE is a bad name to call someone is stupid and it’s just another one of your silly yakety-yak tricks and tactics to continue this fake “fight” and to create false divisiveness.
Your “nabob of negativisim” approach to organizing just doesn’t cut the mustard, sonny boy.
The reference was not to cabdrivers in general, but to you and some of the other sages of wisdom and meaning on this forum.
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I will not associate with any schlongs (or pussies) that refer to cabdrivers as "mugs" or "mopes".
Elitism is thinking you are so much smarter than everyone else and therefore your opinion counts for more...
Disassociating with non-cabdrivers who insult cabdrivers with (lies and) elitist terms like "mugs" and "mopes" isn't elitism...
It's called integrity or self-respect.
Come get some, Wolf-howl, if you can keep your fangs off of Tang and Nathan's schlongs.
-Mike Foulks
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Anyway, the issue is credit card policy, not mopes, mugs,or schlongs.
Try to focus! I know, it's so difficult....)
And, hey, if there is going to be a general "strike" (rumor spreads fast!) over a meter increase, let's try to coordinate it with a the hearings at CIty Hall.
Don't forget, Alderman Allen and Commissioner "No Raise" Reyes have said to bring hundreds of cabbies with to those hearings or else no raise.
