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Do good things and good things happen to you - apparently this aphorism holds true[^].
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And how many people are now trying to think up ways to rob him?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bankers. Solicitors. Accountants.
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Exactly.
Bloody depressing, isn't it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Bankers. Solicitors. Accountants.
The thieves!
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Bankers. Solicitors. Accountants.
Nah. The IRS. He's received more than his allowable annual maximum of "gifts". I kid you not.[^]
Marc
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Am I overlooking something? There's an 14k per donor per recipient limit, and since a married couple can give someone 14k each unless there were a few really big donors he should be in the clear. Also gift tax is normally paid by the giver not the recipient.
He'll still be elephanted with normal income taxes though.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: There's an 14k per donor per recipient limit,
Ah, my misread, I thought there was a 14K limit per year per recipient.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Nah. The IRS. He's received more than his allowable annual maximum of "gifts".
I've been through that myself. The IRS allows $14k from each person. As long as nobody gave him more than that he is okay.
In fact I thought it was now $15k but the IRS link clearly says $14k - thanks for the link. I'll revise my Christmas plans.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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How many of us could truly say we would do the same?
Well actually I probably would if it were that amount of money, but a £20 note would go straight into my sky rocket.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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A friend of mine found a holdall with [IIRC] around £20,000 in it; this was some twenty odd years ago. His first thought was woop-de-woop, but he handed it in. Turned out to be forged with a shed load of finger prints that helped nab several Austalians criminals. He got a nice thank you and a reward from the woodentops.
speramus in juniperus
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If I find a bucketful of ink, I'll happily return it to you with great enthusiasm.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dalek Dave wrote: How many of us could truly say we would do the same?
Just this past Tuesday, I found an iPhone and returned it to its owner (true story, no smiley).
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Dalek Dave wrote: How many of us could truly say we would do the same?
Depends on how good (or bad) the local laws are.
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Truly, a great story.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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In Norway I think you can demand a 10% finder fee if you give it up to the police.
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Again, he's nailed it[^].
Are you in the weird "sorry it's a mess" or the normal "feck it, that's where I left last week's pizza"?
speramus in juniperus
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Love this.
Chris and the Hamsters are respected.
I would love to visit Canada one day, it looks just like home to me.
Clicky Oh Clickity[^]
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Those Canadian stag parties will leave you hurting the next morning.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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You should visit India someday, we have much wider variety of wildlife on our street, and the best part is you can watch them year long and they will never attack you. 
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I would love to visit India as well.
I like the attack bit as well though.
Adds to the excitement...
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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It bites back however as this[^] reports.
You go down a river full of crocodiles in an inflatable dinghy. What part of snap, snap, snap did they fail to appreciate. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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A Briton got stomped to death by an elephant in the forest just the other day.
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Quote: we have much wider variety of wildlife on our street
Ya, but they're humans and you can't hunt them. Legally at least.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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