All good points, but all of those things should have been identified and evaluated during audit planning, or at the very least, early on in the audit testing process. The fact that the audit had made significant progress before the withdrawal tells me there’s something seriously wrong.

One of the curious things about auditing cash is that while it is very easy, it is incredibly important to just about every audit. (Outside of cash, there’s a very strong correlation between the importance of something to a financial statement audit and the difficulty of auditing it.) If an auditor bailed on what is…

That Scientology ad is something else. I feel like you could have replaced “Scientology” with “University of [any state]” and it would have still fit.

I’m starting to come to grips with the fact that my one-word review of Man that was met with disbelief at our Super Bowl party (“bland”) was actually quite generous.

I wondered if Cris’s rambling was just a ruse to make casual fans realize how complicated and stupid the catch rule is.

For several years now, Ram’s Super Bowl ad strategy has been “look at how great America is...now buy this truck!” It’s not too surprising that it migrated from illogical to offensive after a couple years.

Not only that, but the dip must travel over 31 other snacks to get to my mouth. This is unacceptable.

“Who in the HELL would do this sort of thing?”

You are correct, what I really meant to say is even though it’s a blue county, there’s a pretty significant contingent of the types of white kids that would do something like this. I have no idea why I tried to make that point using statistics.

The frogs are a criminally underrated Budweiser ad

When I traveled to Minneapolis a couple years ago, I asked several locals how they deal with the cold. Every single one said something along the lines of “it’s only cold six months of the year!” So freezing you ass off for half your life is fine, got it!

True, but that’s much more reflective of the permanent residents of the area, which is full of stereotypical mountain hippies (also, 92% of the students are from NC, so they’d be unlikely to re-register in Watauga County). The student body is very very white (84%, and only 3% black)

Medium-warm take: TVs are fine, but the quantity and positioning should allow easy avoidance. Because I hate them too but I accept that there are good reasons to have them there.

And now I am chuckling quietly in my office picturing some hipster crime ring. (It probably doesn’t look that far off from that silly ass “gang” that briefly appeared in S2 of “Stranger Things”

I very nearly spit out my coffee when I saw that (but instead did one of those awkward cough-chokes, which is almost worse)

Important question regarding these posts: is it pronounced “you proks” or “up rocks”?

Yeah I had a high school job that included long spans of nothing happening so guys brought magazines, homework etc. One guy always brought Playboy, and I would read them cover to cover. I was kind of blown away that articles were genuinely really good.

Sincere question: how/why is there so much waiver activity in the offseason? Why would the Pirates claim him and then release him four days later, particularly when there’s no baseball being played?

While his candidacy isn’t quite as strong as Bonds and Clemens, Sosa also has a criminally low vote total. Was he a great all around player? Not really, but having the highest 5-year HR total in history should count for something.

Barely related question: is Roy Halladay on the ballot next year?