Recent content by mischievous

IIRC, when I lived in New York, they basically had a "close enough" version of the use tax - each year, you could pay $30 tax on out-of-state purchases, or you could document your real liability. Naturally, most people just paid the $30, which I thought was entirely reasonable.

It's pie in the sky. one of Labour's daily (false) pledges which they think will help dig them out of the mire. I keep a diary of each pledge so made so I have one from each day from the past year. In the period 24 to 12 months ago only 7 of the 366 pledges, it was then a leap year, came to...

That's right, although the present government consists entirely of comedians, it is against the BBC charter that they should employ an entertainer who is also a government minister or someone who they have placed in a senior position of their political hierarchy. No wonder it's called Brown's...

If you paws for a moment to think, someone is doing it on their behalf and perhaps the writer should add pp before their signature at the end of the letter, pp meaning pause paws.

You can also use them to film criminal protesters attacking the police with iron bars. If you don't believe this look at the statistics on how many police officers required hospital treatment following a large scale out of control protest.

Are you asking about your mother-in-law