The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for June 27, 2020

I’m stunned to silence by the sheer grandeur of that pun.

Treat ’em with respect from now on!!

If they screw up your return Mr. Hansen, we could be talking big bucks!

There’s no accounting for ants…

Time for an audit.

I wasn’t ant-icipating this.

at first he was worried that they were consult-ants…

Look behind the shrubs for the visor

Mr Hansen, sensing an opportunity, started breeding them, and soon had himself a thriving account-ant farm.

Don’t ant-tagonize them!

Queen with lots of depend-ants to declare at tax time.

Best leave them be or your taxes won’t get done.

Best way to get rid of them is give them a copy of D.T.’s tax return to Audit.

When he saw the calculator, and w-2s, things began to add up.

so if he knocks off 50% would that be a discount-ant

1040 not included?

Very good. There are different kinds of ants. crawling and crooked.

I’m speechless.

Just don’t get too close, or you’ll get ants in your pants.

And they Excel at their work too I’ll bet!

It will be quite taxing to get rid of them.

Hum! Self-depreciating humor!

Brilliant!

Scott Hilburn, C.P.A.

Certified Pun Artist

Filing taxes for another TERM-ite!

Wow. Over 50 years of reading jokes and comics, and this the first time I ever read such a thing. Good job, SH. Funny comments.

I just read the inheritance tax is an antiquated category of taxes.

Climate change has made the insect world grow and prosper

As long as you’re in the black, leave’em be.

That figures. Now it all begins to add up.

I think we all have to give Mr. Hilburn credit for that pun. In the right-hand column, and a matching debit on the left to bal-ants the books.

Problem solved. Old calculator, before reverse Polish notation.

No-account ants. At least they probably have an accurate count of their colony.

And they’re gonna be hard to get rid of. They’re persist-ants.

The exterminator will amortize them.

Not stunned enough, apparently …

♬ And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa

They’re coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa

To the I.R.S. ♫

Would somebody please contact Rat from “Pearls before Swine” and ask him to bring his bat to the home of Mr. Hilburn?

My mom’s sister is a CPA. She’s our family’s account aunt.

Can he pay the exterminator, or is he insolvant?