Mining Buff Gifts

No! The new mining bill hasn't passed yet!

Ideas that failed: In an attempt to make mining regulation easier to understand, lawyers wrote pop-up manuals.

Tunnel of Ore

'Say - 'Ardex Mining', thats us - up up 3 7/8 last week.'

'Sire, your new fortress was fine for your nephew's fifth, but I fear it is set for a sterner test.'

Knight Golfing

'How many studio apartment construction projects did you say you'd worked on before?'

The discovery of asparagus.

"...and that growl has turned many a hunter into vegetarians!"

"Our focus group will butcher your focus group."

Missing You.

"To begin with, I would like to express my sincere thanks and deep appreciation for the opportunity to meet with you. While there are still profound differences between us, I think the very fact of my presence here today is a major breakthrough."

Dave cut costs and now realizes that in order to pass inspection, he may have to arrange a marriage between his daughter and the building inspector's son.

"Say! While I'm off in the Holy Land, why don't you find a little crusade of some kind that interests you?"

"Frank, I want you to try antidepressants."

Knights of the Square Table.

"You fools! That's not the boiling oil, that's my beef casserole!"

'You can't recuse yourself from a war!'

'The buildings are merging.'

Hysterically laughing monster.

"Never gonna give thou up -- Never gonna let thou down -- Never gonna run around and desert thouuuuuu."

Showing gardening tools to a tower block.

'Times are tough, Smith, but I don't want to lay you off. So, to keep you working, I want you to wash our building. That should keep you busy for the next decade.'

'If you plan to run a half-marathon you won't want a stopwatch, you'll need a calendar!'

'I hate to tell you this, but there was a hole in my pocket, and I lost the budget surplus.'

The tortoise and the hare are in a shoe store trying on shoes in preparation for their race.

"With a little luck he'll be a benevolent teenager."

'What ever happened to that persnickety inspector?'

"This is the first time you've ever planned a moat, I'm guessing?"

The Stat-ewe of Liberty.

'Ok, we've rented the whole building ... oops, they just put on another floor.'

"Shoot, I forgot this place has early checkout."

"One of you go see who's at the door."

"Did you have any problems at the design stage?"

"I'm sorry, sir, but a blade's a blade."