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• Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
  You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859....
• Machinists drill often.
• A conference of Polish economists was convened. It's object was to try to find a way of increasing the value of the zloty.
  One delegate suggested that they drill four holes in them and sell them as buttons....
• You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 261...
• You may be redneck... if you get your oil changed by your barber.
• Cripes, Saddam, I thought you said SHORT oil!
• Heh, heh. You betcha. -- Newton Ames (on behalf of the Monolithic Oil Co
• Whip cream, chocolate, baby oil... what did you have in mind?
• You burn the midnight oil after 9:00 pm