“I break for coffee” (bumper sticker)
“I break for coffee” is a jocular bumper sticker saying that has been printed on many images. It’s a joke on the “coffee break.”
“WARNING! I BREAK FOR COFFEE” (shown on a Professor Phumble comic strip) was printed in the Grand Haven (MI) Tribune on October 3, 1974. “BUMPER STICKER from Stan Chudy, Bradenton: I BREAK for COFFEE” was printed in the St. Petersburg (FL) Times on September 22, 1980. “Business writer Mike Seemuth’s mug even carries a ‘WARNING: I break for coffee’” was printed in The Journal Herald (Dayton, OH) on February 18, 1983. “BEST BUMPER STICKER: On a car in Milan, ‘Warning, I break for coffee’” was printed in the Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) on May 13, 1983.
“I brake for coffee” is a related saying.
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3 October 1974, Grand Haven (MI) Tribune, pg. 19, col. 5:
(“WARNING! I BREAK FOR COFFEE” is shown on a Professor Phumble comic strip.—ed.)
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17 June 1980, Johnson City (TN) Press, Tom Hodge column, pg. 14, col. 2:
There are a lot of “I brake for animals” bumper stickers. Wonder why no one has come up with “I break for coffee”?
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22 September 1980, St. Petersburg (FL) Times, Dick Bothwell column, pg. 3B, col. 3:
BUMPER STICKER from Stan Chudy, Bradenton: I BREAK for COFFEE.
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18 February 1983, The Journal Herald (Dayton, OH), “That ol’ Mug of Mine” by Mickey Davis, pg. 21, col. 3:
Business writer Mike Seemuth’s mug even carries a “WARNING: I break for coffee.”
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13 May 1983, Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA), Bill Wundrum column, pg. 2, col. 1:
BEST BUMPER STICKER: On a car in Milan, “Warning, I break for coffee.”
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24 October 1986, Sunburst (Alamogordo, NM), pg. 2, col. 1:
(“I break for coffee” is shown on a desk sign.—ed._
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