Where are these people buying their coffee that they are able to spend $32 a day? I don’t think even Starbucks charges that much. Also is that thing in the lower left supposed to be a fire hydrant?
Wayno has been doing the daily Bizzaro for a while, a couple of years, I think, so Piraro can concentrate on his Sunday panels.
Hey, Nonny Mouse, in the Roz Chast, 1) The coffee expense is just what the client is telling them, and probably not real, just as your calculation suggests, 2) AFAICT yes, that is supposed to be a hydrant.
Starbucks will happily sell you more than one cup per day.
At first I thought he had misspelled WD-40. But yeah, 10W-40 (hyphenated that way) works, sort of. If he’s got an oil pump. WD-40 is more likely what you would squirt into his rusted joints. (Does tin rust?)
Ahhh! My life (and welcome to it)!
Have been working in accounting/taxes since I was about 8 and my dad had me helping with his new device – a copying machine. (2 steps – Original and sheet of special coated paper were fed through the top slot – green light turned on & copy made. Then the coated paper was fed through the toner – and came out wet. My job was to hang up the wet copies to dry. – Before this tax returns had to be filled in with ink – no white out to fix errors. With the photocopier dad could fill in the form in pencil, copy it and have client file the copied pages as the original return.)
Just went through the oddest and craziest tax season in the ensuing 60 plus years – most of it from problems popping up totally unrelated to tax returns. I got the last return out in the mail to client last Thursday and then started on our return – mailed out yesterday – the 14th.
Spent today dealing finally dealing with other problems that needed to be done with husband. I got home, sat down to breathe and have a soda to relax and a very dear friend called. I did her tax returns for decades and then I got tired of chasing her down (she travels a lot since she retired) reminding her about her taxes. She called – “You need to do my 2022, 2023 and 2024 taxes – help!”
She emailed me the documents – so tomorrow will finish running the backed up errands with husband and then – start on her 3 tax returns!
(I always say about my practice – “Don’t think of all those movies with fancy, rich accountants and clients – think about instead “The Producers” – that is the type of accounting practice I have.”
Does tin rust?
No, but generally things aren’t made of pure tin (other than the original tin foil). It is used as a coating, and the underlying steel can rust.
I’m British, and know nothing about the US tax system. Can someone explain the tin man joke to me, please.
@Pete: the main form to file taxes in the US is called a 1040 form (or 1040 EZ if your taxes are uncomplicated), spoken “ten forty”; there is a popular lubricant called 10W40 (there is also a grade of motor oil designation WD40 that Mark mentions, but that is a digression). The Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz famously needs oil for his joints, otherwise he seizes up and can’t move (when Dorothy originally encounters the Tin Man, he is frozen — all seized up — and requires someone to apply oil to his joints). So combine all this with the idea that the Tin Man needs to file taxes, his 1040 from would be a 10W40 — ha! ha! ha!
Except that WD40 is the lubricant and 10W40 is motor oil, larK has it.
Oops… 😳
FWIW, Wayno has been doing the daily (not Sunday) Bizarro since the start of 2018.
larK – I can at least use “my brain has not yet finished recovering from tax season” – you are welcome to borrow it as an excuse!
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Is this the Wayno show now? Every day???
Where are these people buying their coffee that they are able to spend $32 a day? I don’t think even Starbucks charges that much. Also is that thing in the lower left supposed to be a fire hydrant?
Wayno has been doing the daily Bizzaro for a while, a couple of years, I think, so Piraro can concentrate on his Sunday panels.
Hey, Nonny Mouse, in the Roz Chast, 1) The coffee expense is just what the client is telling them, and probably not real, just as your calculation suggests, 2) AFAICT yes, that is supposed to be a hydrant.
Starbucks will happily sell you more than one cup per day.
At first I thought he had misspelled WD-40. But yeah, 10W-40 (hyphenated that way) works, sort of. If he’s got an oil pump. WD-40 is more likely what you would squirt into his rusted joints. (Does tin rust?)
Ahhh! My life (and welcome to it)!
Have been working in accounting/taxes since I was about 8 and my dad had me helping with his new device – a copying machine. (2 steps – Original and sheet of special coated paper were fed through the top slot – green light turned on & copy made. Then the coated paper was fed through the toner – and came out wet. My job was to hang up the wet copies to dry. – Before this tax returns had to be filled in with ink – no white out to fix errors. With the photocopier dad could fill in the form in pencil, copy it and have client file the copied pages as the original return.)
Just went through the oddest and craziest tax season in the ensuing 60 plus years – most of it from problems popping up totally unrelated to tax returns. I got the last return out in the mail to client last Thursday and then started on our return – mailed out yesterday – the 14th.
Spent today dealing finally dealing with other problems that needed to be done with husband. I got home, sat down to breathe and have a soda to relax and a very dear friend called. I did her tax returns for decades and then I got tired of chasing her down (she travels a lot since she retired) reminding her about her taxes. She called – “You need to do my 2022, 2023 and 2024 taxes – help!”
She emailed me the documents – so tomorrow will finish running the backed up errands with husband and then – start on her 3 tax returns!
(I always say about my practice – “Don’t think of all those movies with fancy, rich accountants and clients – think about instead “The Producers” – that is the type of accounting practice I have.”
Does tin rust?
No, but generally things aren’t made of pure tin (other than the original tin foil). It is used as a coating, and the underlying steel can rust.
I’m British, and know nothing about the US tax system. Can someone explain the tin man joke to me, please.
@Pete: the main form to file taxes in the US is called a 1040 form (or 1040 EZ if your taxes are uncomplicated), spoken “ten forty”; there is a popular lubricant called 10W40 (there is also a grade of motor oil designation WD40 that Mark mentions, but that is a digression). The Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz famously needs oil for his joints, otherwise he seizes up and can’t move (when Dorothy originally encounters the Tin Man, he is frozen — all seized up — and requires someone to apply oil to his joints). So combine all this with the idea that the Tin Man needs to file taxes, his 1040 from would be a 10W40 — ha! ha! ha!
Except that WD40 is the lubricant and 10W40 is motor oil, larK has it.
Oops… 😳
FWIW, Wayno has been doing the daily (not Sunday) Bizarro since the start of 2018.
larK – I can at least use “my brain has not yet finished recovering from tax season” – you are welcome to borrow it as an excuse!