George and Tim McGillivray saw an ad in the Daily Newspaper in Cohuna , Victoria . 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, your donkey died last night"

George and Tim 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 would you do with a dead donkey?"

George said, "We're gunna raffle him off."

The farmer said, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"

Tim said, "We sure can! We don't hafta tell anybody he's dead!"

A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into George and Tim at the local grocery store and asked.

"What'd you fellers do with that dead donkey?"

They said, We raffled him off like we said we would."

Tim said, We sold 500 tickets for two dollars each and made a profit of $898."

The farmer said, My Lord, didn't anyone complain?"

George said, "Well, the bloke who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back." 

George and Tim now work for the Gillard government.

They're financial advisers to Wayne Swan.