Route 6 Sigma Highway Sign Mug

LIMITED TIME ONLY!

Life is a highway. Continuous improvement is a journey. And Route 66 is the highway of Americana. It just sort of all comes together with these neat can-shaped glasses. 

Stock your bar or the Quality Office kitchenette with glassware to be appreciated by the continuous improvement expert.

Makes a great, unique gift for six sigma black belts, lean manufacturing acolytes, industrial engineers, and anyone and everyone in the continuous improvement biz.

Printed front and back.

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Most QI Curiosities visitors will associate Life is Highway with Rascal Flatts’ version, recorded for the movie, Cars. But did you know that prior to that 2006 Pixar classic, it was recorded by Chris LeDoux in 1998? We didn’t. But we did remember the blazing hot summer of 1992 when the radio was mercilessly playing the original. They just wouldn’t let up.

The first time Americans were introduced to Life is Highway, it wasn’t even a country tune. It was alternative rock. Written and performed by Canadian, Tom Cochrane. Here’s Kathleen Rooney writing for March Fadness:

Perhaps at some point very shortly after the passage under Eisenhower of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, the phrase was considered novel, but many decades later, it seems irritating and trite.

To call anything that is not actually a highway a highway certainly betrays a lack of original thought. … It should be against the lyrical law to say that it is. 

And yet ... Life is a Highway is the audio equivalent of a big friendly golden retriever asking you to play fetch; you’d have to have a heart of stone to resist.

That cliché Rooney refers to also applies to any of the numerous songs that likens life to a river. I’m looking at you, Garth Brooks and R.E.M.

And that’s why this Route 6 Sigma design doesn’t have any words. The cliché is implied. Let the joke be in the eye of the beer-holder.

LIMITED TIME ONLY!
Offered exclusively to QI Curiosities customers.

All our mugs are offered exclusively to QI Curiosities customers. And it pays to buy in batches.

• Tier 1: Buy 2 - 3 for 5% off.
• Tier 2: Buy 4 - 5 for 10% off.
• Tier 3: Buy 6 - 7 for 15% off.
• Tier 4: Buy 8+ for 20% off.

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

• Ceramic
• 11 oz mug dimensions: 3.8″ (9.6 cm) in height, 3.2″ (8.2 cm) in diameter
• 15 oz mug dimensions: 4.7″ (11.9 cm) in height, 3.3″ (8.5 cm) in diameter
• 20 oz mug dimensions: 4.3″ (10.9 cm) in height, 3.7″ (9.3 cm) in diameter
• Dishwasher and microwave safe
• Blank product sourced from China

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!