Industrial Adventurer Gifts

"Typical! We've got this place to ourselves just because people are too lazy to climb a few stairs!"

Bar customers with oil extractors for heads.

Shakespeare in the Industrial Park

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

Thomas Mann.

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

E=mc2.

'Wavering between being bullish or bearish'

Motivation to work

'Now Featuring Gas-Fired Microwave Campfires!'

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Philosophy Department: You are here but why are you here?

Super Student

"Barb's such a fast reader."

'I need to borrow your Ph.D. for a half hour tomorrow. I have a major problem to solve.'

'No, really, go ahead. You know me - I'm all about the journey, not the food pellet!'

"Wait, wait, back up, back up. Who the #!@! is George Orwell?"

Academic Jeopardy - "The great unknowns and cosmic uncertainties of the universe are reduced by this number daily."

"I always end up buying way more black-truffle honey than I intended."

Moving in

'Thanks for being up support staff.'

"Keep up the good work, whatever it is, whoever you are."

Meet the new factory manager.

"One day son, all this will be run by robots."

'This course in philosophy is not designed to teach you how to make a living. I will be teaching you how to make a life.'

"This is a big seller, and we get them cheap...from China."

'You present a very convincing argument.'

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

The Economy of Ideas

"He's at that awkward age...he knows just enough about computers to really screw them up."

Caution, Student Self-Driver

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The boss is truly a courageous risk-taker. Only he tasted the salmon mousse at last year's company picnic.