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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> | 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 all around the world. | |||
===Domestication=== | ===Domestication=== | ||
The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in a famous scientific collaboration between [[Calder]] and the [[Maple brothers|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 [[espievie]]s of all kinds, meaning that the continued survival of this freak of financial biology is, for the foreseeable future, assured. | The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in a famous scientific collaboration between [[Calder]] and the [[Maple brothers|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 [[espievie]]s of all kinds, meaning that the continued survival of this freak of financial biology is, for the foreseeable future, assured. | ||
===Modern use=== | ===Modern use=== | ||
Most [[espievie]]s 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 [[espievie]]s for nearly | Most [[espievie]]s 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 [[espievie]]s for nearly sixty years, until an unfortunate leakage of publicity wiped out the whole population, and his laboratory, in 2016. | ||
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