Whilst being the productive student that I am, I was reading a particularly droll chapter about the application of the Trade Practices Act (1974). It all seemed routine until I read the section about who can be mislead for the Act to apply. I encountered this statement which just cracked me up. To the MSN nerds, I ‘lol’ed:
“The question is to be tested by the effect on a person, not particularly intelligent or well informed, but perhaps of somewhat less than average intelligence, although the test is not the effect on a person who is, for example, quite unusually stupid.”
Annand & Thompson Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1979) 25 ALR 91, 101
In other words, a person can be mislead if they’re stupid, but not if they’re too stupid. I need to get my kicks somehow.
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Try and read it out loud too, it’s quite the mouthful.
I like it how they sophistify (made up word means: to try and make sophisticated) something that could be made into such a simple sentence with less commas.
It gets a ‘lol’ from me too.
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