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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

johnslat wrote:
First-time homebuyers (as defined by the stimulus) means anyone who hasn't bought a home during the previous three years. In 2009, we'd been renting since 2004 (two different places,) so we qualified.

Just goes to show that I wasn't paying attention... that you were renting before. Laughing

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:31 pm    Post subject: Re: vacation and tax and Americans Reply with quote

mccainjohn96 wrote:


Who is your accountant, Osama bin Laden? I just got off the phone with the IRS. They referred me to publication 54 and said there is absolutely no way to pro-rate the foreign-earned income exclusion.


My accounting firm, a large one in Houston, knows what it is doing. I have only been doing this since 1986, so don;t pay me any mind.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scot47 wrote:
So is our resident Oklahoman correct in his assertion that this is all a "communist conspiracy" ?

And should Oklahoma Territory be granted Statehood ?


Who IS this "Oklahoman" that you keep referring to? Is this the one and the same "hillbilly" that yer soulmate 007 refers to?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Never Ceased To Be Amazed wrote:
Who IS this "Oklahoman" that you keep referring to?

I have the same question. As far as I know we haven't had any here. I suspect that the term is being used to refer to any Southerner. But, of course, to us... this doesn't work. It would be rather as if we referred to someone from Scotland as "Irish" because they are both "not" English or something. Anyway it is a reference that doesn't quite make the grade. Laughing

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:45 pm    Post subject: Re: vacation and tax and Americans Reply with quote

Sheikh N Bake wrote:
mccainjohn96 wrote:


Who is your accountant, Osama bin Laden? I just got off the phone with the IRS. They referred me to publication 54 and said there is absolutely no way to pro-rate the foreign-earned income exclusion.


My accounting firm, a large one in Houston, knows what it is doing. I have only been doing this since 1986, so don;t pay me any mind.


OK, I won't. John cleared things up for me.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dear scot47,

"In "Fort Zinderneuf",where I perform my didactic duties , there is a gentleman from the Territory of Oklahoma. He is a wise man, full of erudition, wit and repartee. How he came to this fate, I know not. As with our comrades in the Legion it is here considered a breach of etiquette to discuss the past or what has brought our companions to this place.

I can report that from time to time he looks wistful and says,"A woman did this to me." Then he changes the subject."

I think I may know this guy. If you get the chance, ask him if my name rings a bell.

Regards,
John
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scot47 wrote:
So is our resident Oklahoman correct in his assertion that this is all a "communist conspiracy" ?

And should Oklahoma Territory be granted Statehood ?


I think I mentioned this before, but I love it, so here it is again. Drill sergeant to new recruit;

Ah don'T BELIEVE what ahm seein' here today. Listenin' to rock music and bad-mouthin' yer country! Where you from, boah? Oklahoma?! Only TWO THANGS come outta Oklahoma: steers...and qu eers. Which one are you, boah?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

johnslat wrote:
Dear scot47,

"In "Fort Zinderneuf",where I perform my didactic duties , there is a gentleman from the Territory of Oklahoma. He is a wise man, full of erudition, wit and repartee. How he came to this fate, I know not. As with our comrades in the Legion it is here considered a breach of etiquette to discuss the past or what has brought our companions to this place.

I can report that from time to time he looks wistful and says,"A woman did this to me." Then he changes the subject."

I think I may know this guy. If you get the chance, ask him if my name rings a bell.

Regards,
John


[music] Some people say that there's A woh-man to blame,
But ah know
It's mah own damn fault...
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