Dad & Dave saw an ad in the Daily Newspaper in Bowraville, New South Wales. and bought a donkey for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
The next morning the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the donkey died last night."
Dad & Dave replied, "Well, then just give us our money back."
The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
They said, "OK then, just bring us the dead donkey."
The farmer asked, "What in the world ya gonna do with a dead donkey?"
Dad said, "We're gonna raffle him off."
The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
Dad said, "We shore can! Heck, we don't hafta tell nobody he's dead!"
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Dad & Dave at the local grocery store and asked. "What'd you fellers ever do with that dead donkey?"
They said, "We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do."
Dad said,"Hell, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898."
The farmer said, "By Crikey, didn't anyone complain?"
Dave said, "Well, the feller who won was very annoyed
So we gave him back his two dollars."
Dad & Dave now work for the Rudd government.
They're financial advisers to Australia 's Finance minister