Saturday, December 13, 2008

Are you fit?

"Representative Assessee must sign the application if the applicant is minor/ deceased/ idiot/ lunatic/ mentally retarded"

That was in the instructions for how to fill in the application for a PAN (the equivalent of an SSN) in India. I read it with my mouth open. This instruction probably also applies to the people who drew up these instructions, or if that was very long ago, then to the people who haven't changed them yet.

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  1. This quote is so good I might just post it at work.
    It also has some meaning for me, as my ggGrandmother died in a lunatic asylum. She had been there for many years. I sometimes wonder if she didn't simply have a bad case of menopause.
    Chris

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