Word: joiners
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Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...semi-scientific basis. Scouring the earth's surface with geologists and expensively equipped seismographic crews, they played no hunches, never drilled until they found indication of oil-bearing structure. These methods have vastly lowered the percentage of dry wells drilled. But many an important field (like "Dad" Joiner's huge East Texas discovery in 1930) is still brought in by wildcatters...
Adam Ramage was a handy Scots wood-joiner who emigrated to the U. S. around 1790 and went into the business of making printers' materials. He built his first presses out of Honduras mahogany, added iron to beds and platens to make them durable, finally abandoned wood for iron throughout. Ramage's presses helped to found many a great U. S. newspaper, stamped many a page of U. S. history on single sheets of dampened paper before Robert Hoe developed the revolving press...