“When accountants go insane, do they start to hear invoices?
A joke about accountants/bookkeepers is:
“When accountants go insane, do they start to hear invoices?
The joke has been cited on Twitter since December 2, 2011. The “hear invoices” pun has been cited in print since at least 1989.
“My accountant went to see a psychiatrist because he kept hearing strange invoices” is another version of the “invoices” joke.
Google Books
Driving Your Own Karma:
Swami Beyondananda’s Tour Guide to Enlightenment
By Steve Bhaerman
Rochester, VT: Destiny Books; New York, NY: Distributed to the Book trade in the U.S. by Harper & Row
1989
Pg. 118:
Are you so overwhelmed by bills that you’re beginning to hear invoices in the night?
Twitter
Kevin Bland
@kevbland
My accountant has been done for embezzling, but is pleading insanity. Apparently he could hear invoices in his head telling him to do it.
8:17 AM - 11 May 2009
Twitter
Egill Harðar
@egillhardar
Do accountants hear invoices?
9:39 AM - 14 Oct 2009
Twitter
Kevin Leroux
@LeKevbo
Schizophrenic sales people often hear invoices in their heads.
7:18 AM - 14 Sep 2010
Twitter
Morti
@SteveMortiboys
Do schizophrenic accountants hear invoices in their head?
1:56 PM - 20 Apr 2011
Twitter
Will
@TheThryll
When accountants go insane, do they start to hear invoices?
11:08 PM - 2 Dec 2011
reddit
Why did the accountant go crazy?
submitted March 8, 2012 by FruitBatman
He started to hear invoices in his head.
Namibian Sun
Funny Facebook statuses
Submitted by Sun Reporter2 on Tue, 2012-09-11 10:48
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When accountants go insane, do they start to hear invoices?
Twitter
mrdl
@Psilosophy
Chartered accountants hear invoices in their head
2:55 AM - 1 Nov 2014
Facebook
Reader’s Digest
September 3, 2015 ·
What did the schizophrenic bookkeeper say? I hear invoices! #jokes
Facebook
Bhak Sala
November 6, 2015 ·
Chartered accountants hear invoices in their head :v
Twitter
Adam Smargon
@recycler1973
The schizophrenic bookkeeper told his therapist: “I hear invoices!”
—Stephen Pickering
3:18 PM - 21 Feb 2016