Vintage oil ad oozes irony

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Which of the following haiku poems best describes the formation of oil?
Swamp plants leaf out green
then die and get squeezed, sans air.
Carbon gets more pure.
Plates skitter about
plastering terranes on front
like trucks with kittens.
Surface magma sweats,
devolatilizes. Its
fluids drop out ore.
Phytoplankton bloom
in sunny water then get
cooked and leak black goo.
Fossil fuels get lit
and oxidize; humans thrive.
Damn that CO2.
Not the most challenging question on the exam, but it was fun to write...
Other geoblogger instructors -- Do you amuse yourself (and your students) by injecting humor into exams? Is this poor form on my part? Is it genius? Weigh in. I'm curious to know whether this habit is ridiculous or common.
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Heh! This "clean coal" debunking campaign is directed by the Coen Brothers.
And another:
Behind the scenes:
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Brilliant! Especially in light of the new fossil evidence about the origins of whales released earlier this year.
From last week's issue of the New Yorker, which I've got time to read today because it's a snow day here in DC!


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This weekend, I was procrastinating working on my final paper of the semester for my online MSSE education class, and decided to search "geology" on YouTube. (I knew there were some gems there, as Bryan reminded me earlier today.)
Anyhow, that search brought me to this piece of utter silliness, which I now share with you:
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Thanks Chris! This made my morning... Literally: I'm LOL.
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The Onion's "American Voices" covered a recent issue (see here in the New York Times, for instance) that some people are paying attention to: radiation emitted by granite countertops.As part of that issue's focus on animal intelligence, it was a small photo of a baboon teaching a cat to sit upright. The photographed cat didn't want to sit upright, but Lola thought it was a great idea. For the next several days, she sat upright constantly, reading the New Yorker and Wine Spectator, puffing her meerschaum pipe and looking contemplative. But then she lost interest in sitting upright when she read about fossil ammonites. Admiring their graceful sprials, she promptly curled up into a ball. Immediately, she began purring. "It's much more comforable," she told me. "Ammonites must be smarter than baboons."
I pointed out her lack of exoskeleton. "Ammonites have shells, Lola," I said, admittedly a bit condescendingly. An hour later, I found she had taken over my office wastebasket:
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Thanks to John Weidner for calling this gem to my attention!



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