Request for Question Clarification by
calebu2-ga
on
12 Apr 2003 10:36 PDT
Are you looking for any type of amusement in particular?
I might refer you to these articles for which I spend all of 30
seconds doing the researcher thingy for :
http://hem.fyristorg.com/industrial-botany/humour-eng.htm
This article points out that the definition of humor (or humour as I
would call it) depends heavily on your definition of amusement.
http://www.gurnee.il.us/village_board/vb_minutes/1998/10-12-98-cow.html
This article shows how much trouble a village in Illinois can face
when trying to figure out a definition of "amusement". It seems that
Trustee Narusis actually gets jollies (and hence amusement) from
modifying the town charter to revise its definition of "amusement".
Amusement is a multimillion dollar legal question in Gurnee (which
apparantly consists of a Six Flags park and not much else).
Their concern was whether amusing ones self within ones home was
taxable and they determined it wasn't (at least I think they did, I
really wasn't reading that closely). So be glad you don't live in
Gurnee. The mayor of gurnee wants to know how you amuse yourself so he
can determine whether it is taxable.
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Revenue/Tax/InfoBulletins/Jaunary1997.html
says
"The definition of amusement includes any exhibition, performance,
presentation or show for entertainment purposes whether viewed within
or outside the home, including, but not limited to, any theatrical,
dramatic, musical, promotional show, or motion picture show; any
entertainment or recreational activity offered for public
participation, including, but not limited to, games, bowling,
billiards and pool games, dancing, tennis, racquetball, swimming,
weight lifting, body building or similar activities on a membership or
other basis; and paid television programming, whether transmitted by
wire, cable, fiber optics, laser, microwave, radio, satellite or
similar means (4-156-010)"
So before you go asking me to amuse you and Pinkfreud, I strongly
suggest that you refine your definition of amusement and then go to:
http://cax.aers.psu.edu/localgovernment/TAXES/taxdesc.htm#amusement_tax
and
http://www.cityoftulsa.org/General+Information/Ordinances/20043.htm
respectively, to decide whether your being amused could affect your
taxes for the 2003 tax year. I too need to be concerned that Google
Answers does not count as a venue with more than 1000 seats for
"amusing people". Massachusetts and California (heck I have no clue
who I'd pay taxes to) tax amusement of more than 1000 people at a
time.
Perhaps, if I decide to go ahead with said amusing, in whatever form
it takes, I can ask people who read the thread to leave a comment
saying whether they too were amused. That way we can get the editors
to pull the question when the laughter count reaches 999.
So let me know what kind of amusement you are looking for as well as
your tax liability for the current fiscal year. Of course if you are
B-mused, feel free to use the Request for Clarification to turn your
B-musement into A-musement.
Regards
calebu2-ga
preliminary search strategy:
SECRET. Why would I tell you the search strategy before answering the
question. If I did that you could close the question, and go amuse
yourself. I would not be amused.
Note to commenters:
callebu2-ga: If such an imposter appears on this thread, notice the
timing of my RFC and the timing of the comment and see that this post
precedes all others, so when I say callebu2-ga is an imposter, I hope
that people will realise that I am the real me and the only one
authorized to amuse in the confines of this thread.
To the person who is inevitably going to try to out humor me by being
even funnier or who is going to argue the validity of my punchline so
as to diminish my authority as a researcher of that which does amuse:
Please don't. You can start your own thread with the subject of "Why
do I find myself so funny?". You may also want to ask the question
"Why don't other people find me funny?". Finally you may also want to
know "How bad were the comedians that got rejected from Star Search if
Brad Trackman scored 6 out of 20 from the judges - the minimum score
being 4?"
