This may have been posted on a previous Easter. If so, it’s doubly a zombie comic.
Celebrating the end of tax season:
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The Cornered panel is a CIDU.
It kind of is for me too. Maybe it’s saying you have to get down on your knees and beg for a loan? If so. It’s not really working.
Powers and Philip: That’s exactly what I think it’s saying, and it made me LOL. Proving once again that humor varies…
The Running of the Accountants is 100% real.
My first read of the cornered panel could have crossed into Arlo territory, but then decided it must be intended to indicated begging for a loan.
I had the same reaction to Cornered as Ted.
I also thought immediately of begging for a loan, and got a small chuckle.
I enjoyed today’s Breaking Cat News. Below I will attempt an image link. The new GoComics in a way makes it easier to save or view strip images. However, the old trick of adding .jpt or .gif to the URL doesn’t seem to work. So I’ll put what they give.
As I figured, it didn’t embed. GC has instituted a limit on how far back free subscribers can view in the archives. I don’t know that it will affect the permanence of image links.
I’m with phsiii (3). And the CPA one reminds me of an old friend who was a tax guy. The first half of April was sheer hell for him. On the 16th, he was gone far, far away.
I have worked during tax season since I was 8 years old! Dad was a CPA – and mom had her BBA (later a masters too) in accounting also.
When dad filled in tax returns they had to be filled in using ink (so the info could not be changed) and it was a bit of a problem if one had to correct an error. When I was 8 years old dad bought a marvelous device – it was called “a copying machine” and was magic. Dad would take the tax form – filled in with a pencil (or anything else or anything else he needed a duplicate of) and put it together with a special sheet of paper which was coated on one side. The 2 pieces of paper were fed into the upper slot of the machine – a green light came on and took a picture of the original onto the coated paper as the papers went through the slot. The coated paper (on its own) was then fed into the lower slot of the machine and went through the chemical bath. When the coated paper – the copy – came out of the bottom slot it was a duplicate (even if the paper was a bit gray) of the original – and was wet. My job was to hang up the wet pages to dry.
Back then it never dawned on me that one I would be able to put a tax form (or anything else) on top of a piece of a glass (bed of the copier) and have – in one pass – a copy of the form print out – dry for me to use —– and I could even make a second copy on the back of a first one!
Husband did not know about tax season. He thought it strange that one Passover we were at my uncle and aunt’s house. Uncle was leading the Seder (for those who might not know – a combination religious service for Passover and dinner) at one end of the table and at the other end dad was getting tax info from relatives there to prepare their tax returns.
It took Robert some years to adjust to the idea of tax season and the effect it has on the Passover/Easter season (though some years earlier and some years later) – he will help by making photocopies – my practice is way too small to file clients returns online. I have very few clients – mostly don’t want people whose tax returns I was helping copy back then to have to find someone new – so I do not have a big enough practice to buy the software to file it directly.
This was a BAD TAX SEASON – and a friend whose taxes I used to that I have not heard from in 3 years about her taxes – emailed me all 3 years of papers – on April 16th! So I am not yet done.
Middle sister has her degree in business also, but not in accounting – “you are not going to catch me into that also!”
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The Cornered panel is a CIDU.
It kind of is for me too. Maybe it’s saying you have to get down on your knees and beg for a loan? If so. It’s not really working.
Powers and Philip: That’s exactly what I think it’s saying, and it made me LOL. Proving once again that humor varies…
The Running of the Accountants is 100% real.
My first read of the cornered panel could have crossed into Arlo territory, but then decided it must be intended to indicated begging for a loan.
I had the same reaction to Cornered as Ted.
I also thought immediately of begging for a loan, and got a small chuckle.
I enjoyed today’s Breaking Cat News. Below I will attempt an image link. The new GoComics in a way makes it easier to save or view strip images. However, the old trick of adding .jpt or .gif to the URL doesn’t seem to work. So I’ll put what they give.
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/35b46f80e37d013d9652005056a9545d
https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2025/04/20
As I figured, it didn’t embed. GC has instituted a limit on how far back free subscribers can view in the archives. I don’t know that it will affect the permanence of image links.
I’m with phsiii (3). And the CPA one reminds me of an old friend who was a tax guy. The first half of April was sheer hell for him. On the 16th, he was gone far, far away.
I have worked during tax season since I was 8 years old! Dad was a CPA – and mom had her BBA (later a masters too) in accounting also.
When dad filled in tax returns they had to be filled in using ink (so the info could not be changed) and it was a bit of a problem if one had to correct an error. When I was 8 years old dad bought a marvelous device – it was called “a copying machine” and was magic. Dad would take the tax form – filled in with a pencil (or anything else or anything else he needed a duplicate of) and put it together with a special sheet of paper which was coated on one side. The 2 pieces of paper were fed into the upper slot of the machine – a green light came on and took a picture of the original onto the coated paper as the papers went through the slot. The coated paper (on its own) was then fed into the lower slot of the machine and went through the chemical bath. When the coated paper – the copy – came out of the bottom slot it was a duplicate (even if the paper was a bit gray) of the original – and was wet. My job was to hang up the wet pages to dry.
Back then it never dawned on me that one I would be able to put a tax form (or anything else) on top of a piece of a glass (bed of the copier) and have – in one pass – a copy of the form print out – dry for me to use —– and I could even make a second copy on the back of a first one!
Husband did not know about tax season. He thought it strange that one Passover we were at my uncle and aunt’s house. Uncle was leading the Seder (for those who might not know – a combination religious service for Passover and dinner) at one end of the table and at the other end dad was getting tax info from relatives there to prepare their tax returns.
It took Robert some years to adjust to the idea of tax season and the effect it has on the Passover/Easter season (though some years earlier and some years later) – he will help by making photocopies – my practice is way too small to file clients returns online. I have very few clients – mostly don’t want people whose tax returns I was helping copy back then to have to find someone new – so I do not have a big enough practice to buy the software to file it directly.
This was a BAD TAX SEASON – and a friend whose taxes I used to that I have not heard from in 3 years about her taxes – emailed me all 3 years of papers – on April 16th! So I am not yet done.
Middle sister has her degree in business also, but not in accounting – “you are not going to catch me into that also!”