Mining Buff Mugs

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!"

Missing You.

"Our focus group will butcher your focus group."

"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."

"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."

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.

Knights of the Square Table.

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

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

Hysterically laughing monster.

Showing gardening tools to a tower block.

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

'The buildings are merging.'

'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!'

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

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

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

The Stat-ewe of Liberty.

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

'What ever happened to that persnickety inspector?'

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

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

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

'Best bit of winter pipe lagging I've seen for ages...unfortunately, that's just the scaffolding.'

Restored antique carriage in A.D. 2500