“What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing a hotel room?”/“Not filling out the comment card.”

A joke about an accountant’s supposedly mild personality is:
 
Q: What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing his/her hotel room?
A: Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
   
The joke was posted to the newsgroup eunet.jokes on October 25, 1997.
   
   
Google Groups: eunet.jokes
Accountant Jokes
Jolly
10/25/97
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Q: What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing his/her hotel room?
A: Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
 
Google Groups: alt.humor
Accountant Humor
No Spam E-Mail
11/29/97
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Q: What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing his/her hotel room?
A: Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
 
Google Books
Jokes for Blokes:
The Ultimate Book of Jokes not Suitable for Mixed Company
By Llewellyn Dowd and Phil McCracken
London: Ebury Press
2011
Pg. 8:
What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing his hotel room? Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
 
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing his hotel room?
Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
 
Google Books
A Prairie Home Companion
Pretty Good Joke Book (6th Edition)
Introduced by Garrison Keillor
Prince Frederick, MD: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
2015
Pg. ?:
What’s an accountant’s idea of trashing his hotel room? Refusing to fill out the guest comment card.
 
30 June 2016, Newcastle (New South Wales) Herald, “It’s time to go dry - or eat meat pies”:
How does an accountant trash their hotel room? By refusing to fill in the guest comment card. Boom tish!