
The joke, explained
"Tis better to have loved and aborted than to have never loved at all" bends a famous line from Tennyson. In his 1850 poem In Memoriam the line ends "loved and lost", a consolation for grief. This version means the consolation for grief has become a shrug about a pregnancy ended by choice, delivered in a poet's cadence. That makes a funny dating coffee mug for the poet with a dark streak, and a sarcastic dating coffee mug for readers who like their verse ruined. Funny dating coffee mugs for men rarely quote poetry. A funny family coffee mug for anyone who laughs at the topics nobody brings to dinner.