And let's say you choose to replace the drip basket, then you break and must replace the carafe, then you replace all the parts in succession until none of the original parts remain... Is it STILL your Mr.Coffee?
Well...
First Mr.Garrison was a quirky 3rd grade teacher with a puppet.
Then Mr.Garrison was a quirky 3rd grade teacher with a stick.
Then Mr.Garrison was a gay 3rd grade teacher who denied being gay.
Then Mr.Garrison was a gay 3rd grade teacher who denied being gay but got caught soliciting sex from young boys and got fired.
Then Mr.Garrison was an admittedly gay teacher who couldn't get re-hired because he was gay.
Then Mr.Garrison was a gay perverted Kindergarten grade teacher who eventually got moved to 4th grade.
Then Mr.Garrison was a 4th grade teacher who chopped his dick off, stuffed implants in his chest and started calling himself Ms.Garrison.
Then Mr.Garrison was jilted by his gay lover because he had a sex change.
Then Mr.Garrison was a lesbian.
Then Mr.Garrison was a lesbian who wanted to be a man again and had a new penis grown for him in a lab.
Then Mr.Garrison was a man again, but with an ambiguous sexual identity.
Then Mr.Garrison was President of the United States.
Through all of those changes, Mr.Garrison was always Mr.Garrison.