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[king_pellinor]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

I've had to cheat slightly, as there are only 7 sentences on this page, one of which started on page 122. I don't count footnotes or headers, so I've omitted them. Starting with the fifth sentence:

The provisions are:
(a) sections 824 to 826 of the principal Act (repayment supplements and interest on tax overpaid); and
(b) section 283 of the 1992 Act (repayment supplements).
Subject to sections 6 to 12 and Parts VIII and XI of the Principal Act (charge of corporation tax on companies), every body of persons shall be chargeable to income tax in like manner as any person is chargeable under the Income Tax Acts.
Subject to section 108 of this Act, the chamberlain or other officer acting as treasurer, auditor or receiver for the time being of any body of persons chargeable to income tax shall be answerable for doing all such acts as are required to be done under the Income Tax Acts for th purpose of the assessment of the body and for payment of the tax.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I take it you've done this meme while you're at work? If you had been at home and got that sentence, that would have been really sad.

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope this book is just gathering dust on the corner of your desk at work, acting as a paperweight. Because otherwise...you have my sympathies!

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Absolutely not - this is the book I use most at work, hence it being to hand.

In fact I was leafing through volume 1b of it (pages 5,001-7,300) when I got the notification of your comment :-D

Fascinating read. Some bits are hilarious :-)

[evilmissbecky.livejournal.com]

Just as long as you don't take it home over the weekend for some light pleasure reading... ;-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

If there are only 7 sentences on the page, how big is the type? It must be as big as the type in a first reader for a 4 year old. Is this book called "Baby's First Tax Book", by any chance?

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

The type is pretty small: about 60-70 lines to the page, although footnotes are smaller. So each line takes about 3mm of the page, or maybe slightly more.

The first sentence takes up an inch and a half, and it started on the previous page. The second is six lines, and there are two inches of footnotes after the third. The fourth sentence is another six lines; we have another two inches of footnotes and headings after the fifth.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Still, it would be fun to read a few sentences from "Baby's First Tax Book." Care to write a few lines from it?

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

This is Hector. Hector is a Tax Inspector.

Today Hector is going to visit a very important man. He is going to visit the Duke of Westminster.

The Duke of Westminster has lots of money. Hector would like to have some of that money so he can give it to the Government.

Hector has a special Tax Inspector's shovel. It is quite big. But the Duke of Westminster has lots and lots of money.

"I know" says Hector. "I'll take the biggest possible shovel in the whole world along. That way I'll get lots of money out."

But who are these people? They're the House of Lords!

"NO!" say the House of Lords. "No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or to his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel into his stores."

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

LOL! Oh dear, maybe you should nudge that book suggestion in pennypaperbrain's direction

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. Which one is the Baddy? Which one is the Goody? Is the baddy going to get CRUSHED? I am only 5. I need to have clear black/white moral distinctions or I get confused. I need to see the Baddies getting punished, or I cry. What does a "tax" look like? It is scary, like a spider? But I don't think you can shovel spiders. Is it something like - *snigger snigger* - horse poo? *snigger snigger* I just said a bad word!!!! *snigger snigger*