Free Range by Bill Whitehead for February 01, 2022

Maybe he knows some "ledger"demain.

An understandable mistake.

Sounds like he has a book in his bonnet.

Maybe he’s working undercover … on a sting operation.

Too quote Roseanne Roseannadanna…

“Never mind”

he just thought the words from the books could be too buzzing without it. :D

Well, I’ll bee!

“And get a hearing test!”

Thanks anyway, Honey.

But he has an MBeeA

He understood the job opening, he just heard the bookkeeping dept. was a hive of activity.

Comprehension

Who wants to keep “boo’s” anyway?

But they can use you over at B.C.

When I was about eight or nine years old, I had a book of brain teasers for children that included one called The Puzzled Bookkeeper. It went something like this:

“A bookkeeper noticed that the word balloon has two double letters in a row. He wondered if there was a word that has three double letters in a row.”

“There is such a word, and it is somewhere on this page. What is it?”

The suit may still be useful.

The only word (along with bookkeeper, that is) in English that has three consecutive pairs of double letters