Get mercilessly mocked for a financially based oversight once, shame on you. Twice? Forget about it.

Which is why Oprah Winfrey took the lessons learned from Cargate—when each “lucky” member of her studio audience who received a Pontiac got the unexpected bonus of having to pay $7,000 in gift tax—and assured her Australia-bound fans that the trip will be absolutely, positively, 100 percent free of charge.