Oil Discovery Gifts

'Let's call him lucky!'

I hear he discovered petroleum in his backyard! Yeah, and he took an oily retirement!

Divining Oil

"Ya know, 'DUH' can be a very hurtful word."

Spot the difference.

(oil - petroleum - gushing out of inkwell)

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

'I pledge allegiance to the atom, and to the periodic table on which it stands, many particles indivisible, with orbitals and electrons for all.'

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

Intelligent people laugh too!

"I warned you not to use that club...now look, you struck oil!"

On a hot day in 1941, scientists uncovered the only known remains of the elusive nerdosaurus rex,

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

The star hunters

'The good news is we've discovered a vast new oil resource. The bad news is we need a space ship to get there.'

Wilhelm Rontgen's first attempt at X-rays: shining a bright light through Madame Rontgen.

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

"Oh, puhleeese. No one's going to steal your idea."

'Well, well - this should create a nice little wave of panic and hysteria.'

"It says here that study claims chimps and humans are 96% the same. What's your thoughts Derek?"

Now if we can just figure out how to use this to power that.

Talent, pluck, or plain dumb luck?

Snake in the grass...

"I guess one of the bunnies was a boy after all!"

Impatient Oil Drillers LTD.

'No way! To fund health, education and welfare, we'd be forced to tax oil companies!'

Take me to your leader. . .

Ethanol and foreign oil.

'There goes another one. Galileo, don't you have any idea what makes them do that?'

Long before Newton, Yampoo discovers gravity, unfortunately the Liazo Tribe doesn't have a written alphabet.

'Well number 34 has run dry and is now pumping fossils.'

'Put that down your fool! It's a bone of contention.'

'We made something greater than sliced bread, we built a better mousetrap...are we resting on our laurels?'

'So what if you found it? Whatever it is, it belongs to ME! Now, get off my beach!'

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'