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The first to do so was [[L. B. G. T. Appleby]] who discovered the Bermudan reinsurance [[espievie]], not too far from the Caribbean along the Gulf Stream, of course, in 1939.  
The first to do so was [[L. B. G. T. Appleby]] who discovered the Bermudan reinsurance [[espievie]], not too far from the Caribbean along the Gulf Stream, of course, in 1939.  


Fourteen years later, retired botanist [[Herbert Fonesca]] came across neat piles of tax losses when on a forest walk with his grand-children, which the children managed to trace all the way to back to a mating pair of film [[espievie]]s, concealed in dense thicket of blind [[trust]]s. The species had never before seen in Panama.<ref>Fonseca should have realised trouble was in store: the very thing about film partnerships is that they are ''not meant to be traceable''.</ref>   
Fourteen years later, retired botanist [[Herbert Fonseca]] came across neat piles of tax losses when on a forest walk with his grand-children, which the children managed to trace all the way to back to a mating pair of film [[espievie]]s, concealed in dense thicket of blind [[trust]]s. The species had never before seen in Panama.<ref>Fonseca should have realised trouble was in store: the very thing about film partnerships is that they are ''not meant to be traceable''.</ref>   


Then, in 1964, Jersey paleontologist [[Ichabod Mourant]] discovered a colony of “[[Oeic]]s” (the word is derived from the Jèrriais for “imaginary legal entity” and is pronounced “[[Oik]]”) nesting in the archive stacks of Guernsey’s ''Library for the Illiterate''. Since then [[espievie]]s have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates.
Then, in 1964, Jersey paleontologist [[Ichabod Mourant]] discovered a colony of “[[Oeic]]s” (the word is derived from the Jèrriais for “imaginary legal entity” and is pronounced “[[Oik]]”) nesting in the archive stacks of Guernsey’s ''Library for the Illiterate''. Since then [[espievie]]s have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates.

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Special purpose vehicle /ˈspɛʃ(ə)l ˈpəːpəs ˈviːɪk(ə)/ (n.)
A unique species of joint stock company[1] first discovered in the lush forests of George Town, Grand Cayman by dour Scottish naturalist A. J. N. Calder in 1926.

Discovery

For many years Calder believed the creature he had found, and which he taxonomised as the “common Cayman exempted espievie” (genus consortium restrictum culpam caymanium), was unique in the world. But Calder’s, and our, world was repeatedly rocked over the next thirty years as naturalists found variants elsewhere in many different financial and regulatory climates.

The first to do so was L. B. G. T. Appleby who discovered the Bermudan reinsurance espievie, not too far from the Caribbean along the Gulf Stream, of course, in 1939.

Fourteen years later, retired botanist Herbert Fonseca came across neat piles of tax losses when on a forest walk with his grand-children, which the children managed to trace all the way to back to a mating pair of film espievies, concealed in dense thicket of blind trusts. The species had never before seen in Panama.[2]

Then, in 1964, Jersey paleontologist Ichabod Mourant discovered a colony of “Oeics” (the word is derived from the Jèrriais for “imaginary legal entity” and is pronounced “Oik”) nesting in the archive stacks of Guernsey’s Library for the Illiterate. Since then espievies have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates.

Domestication

The espievie was first bred in captivity in a famous scientific collaboration between Calder and the Godfrey and Maginot Maple brothers, then working in the George Ugland’s zoological menagerie in George Town. The site is occupied today by the Ugland House orphanage, which is headquarters of an industrial breeding programme for espievies of all kinds, meaning that the continued survival of this freak of financial biology is, for the foreseeable future, assured.

Modern use

Most espievies are harmless and even friendly and can be useful around the garden, mulching up tax liabilities and so on. But occasionally they turn nasty. Poor Andrew Fastow was hounded to prison by three of his own raptors. Herbert Fonseca successfully bred Panamanian tax espievies for nearly sixty years, until an unfortunate leakage of publicity wiped out the whole population, and his laboratory, in 2016.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Also known as an “espievie” and, in accounting circles for some reason, as an “espiecie” — rest assured it is the same beast.
  2. ↑ Fonseca should have realised trouble was in store: the very thing about film partnerships is that they are not meant to be traceable.
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