A funny old story

This is something I heard a long time ago, but it still makes me laugh.

Back in the 60's there was a highly acclaimed geology professor who met with the executives of some of the major oil companies. At the time they were desperate to recruit a lot of college grads. The professor wrote and performed a speech designed to spark interest in oil exploration. The speech was excellent and the execs were so impressed they asked him to tour around America and give this speech to major university geology undergrads. The Professor agreed and the companies supplied him with a limo, and a full time driver to chauffer him around.

For the next six months he gave the speech to much acclaim and many standing ovations. This sparked an increase in the number of college kids interested in the oil business. One day as he was headed toward his next engagment, the driver who was normally a quiet man spoke up and said "The is no fairness in this life"
The professor, stunned by the remark asked "what do you mean?"
The driver replied "Well sir, with all due respect, they are paying you an enormous amount of money just to give this same speech over and over again and I can barely keep my kids fed."
The shame of it is" he continued, "I could make that speech every bit as well as you can!"
"My good man," the professor said offended at the driver's suggestion, "I will have you know I recieved my BS degree at..."
Before the professor could list off his lenghy list of academic qualifications, the driver cut him off and said" I don't give a rats rear about where you got this, that or the other, I am saying that for the last six months, I have heard you make the speech, memorized every word and can recite it just as well as you can"
The professor thought for a moment and smuggly said "I will challenge you on this point, the university we are coming to is one that I have never been to before. They have never seen me. You and I are about the same size, before we arrive, I will switch clothes with you, drive you in and let you get up in front of the students and make the speech, if you succeed I will ask the oil company to triple your pay, but if you lose, we will never speak of this again.
"Well sir, the driver said, you're on" The two switched places and clothing, the profressor now in the chauffers outfit drove in. parked the car and entered the building. The professor sat in the back and the driver dressed as the great professor went to the podium, after a brief introduction launched into the speech. He articulated brilliantly, not missing a word, his enflections and pauses were perfectly timed. At the end of the speech, the auditorium erupted with thunderous applause and the driver recieved a five minute standing ovation, so far so good , he thought.
The moderator then calmed the audience down and said, "we have some time left, does anyone here have any...questions."
One student stood up and said "sir, if an oil rig on a wildcat exploration hits rock at 3.2 miles down, what would the temperature of the drill bit be and the name of the strata it hit.
The professor still sitting in the back in the driver's outfit smiled smuggly expecting his driver to be terribly embarassed smiled.
Without a pause the driver said "sir, I cannot believe you would ask this quesiton, this insults my intellegence, how did you make it into this fine institution not knowing that already?"
"I will tell you what, just to show you how simple this question is to answer, my driver is sitting there in the back I will have him answer it!!"

Sometimes folks, street smarts win out-TJ

ha ha ha

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