The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112229 Message #2398646
Posted By: The Walrus
27-Jul-08 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: 4th Joke thread of 2008!
Subject: RE: BS: 4th Joke thread of 2008!
"...15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776)..."
That date should read 1763 - After all, half the oriinal plotters of the 'revolution' were only doing it as a way of evading the back taxes to pay for the Seven Years War in the Americas (aka French & Indian Wars).