Free Range by Bill Whitehead for September 27, 2021

"Tally"ho!

He’s a rakey practitioner.

Perhaps he’s an evangelist counting The Fallen.

A pain staking job, but somebody has to do it !

I would make a terrible accountant. I would just “ball park” it at as, oh, let’s just say, 5,000 and go with that.

As if they don’t fudge the numbers.

She should mess with his mind and tell him he missed a handful of brown ones in half the bags.

Now I know what my accountant is doing instead of my 2020 income tax

That’s 1 for the books.

Did they use double entry?

Cue the new Liberty insurance commercial with the kids who jump rope so long they get old and gray…

Oh wait….you missed a couple over there. And here comes 3 more….

He is the handyman and charges by the hour.

I don’t think he’s Finnished.

" Last year we had 3827, can you account for the missing leaves?"

Meanwhile the economist couple simply got researches to find the precise weights of several varied sample sizes, then used those results to calculate the total number of leaves. However when their results were published the research was heavily criticized for failure to account for broken/damaged leaves, wind effects on net gain or loss of leaves with respect to other yards or additional leaves dropping, etc.

In the end, the scientists lost their funding while the economists, using those scientists’ same flawed numbers, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.