Does anyone here speak Gobbledegook?

[limbimtimwim]

There's four full stops and a comma. What more do you want....?

It needs at least one ";".

[Winston001]

Ahhh, the Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Bingo.

Jim is referring to the accountancy ditty above which comes from a short Monty Python film. The film presages "The Meaning of Life" and is about the Crimson Permanent Assurance Company. A classic film short in it's own right.

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/crimson/crimson.htm

[RantyDave]

This, is the very definition of a backfire. Scott Mason, a tax consultant, has supplied this piece of rather luscious consultancy to the chamber of commerce as a freebie. After all, once local businesses see what a clearly clever chap he is they will flock to his $250/hr door for all their tax consulting needs, right?

Except that in my experience people do like lawyers, consultants and other bullshitters (IT types included) to translate things into English for their fee. By publishing this farcical piece of legaleze all he has done is demonstrated is that he does not have this skill and is therefore to be avoided at all cost.

I did have a go at translating it, but got basically nowhere. However I can assure you that buying a lotus elise, putting "tricks" on the numberplate then trying to pass it off as a legitimate business expense is simply not going to work.

Dave