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At the end of the tax year, the IRS
office sent an inspector to audit the books of a local hospital.
While the IRS
agent was checking the books he turned to the CFO of the hospital
and said, "I
notice you buy a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the
roll when
there's too little left to be of any use?"
"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and
send them back to the bandage company and every now and then they send us a
free box of bandages."
"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed
that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his
obnoxious way. "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with
what's left over after setting a cast on a patient?"
"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the
inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it
and send it back to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a
free package of plaster."
"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how
he could fluster the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do
you do with
all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What
we do is save all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS Office, and
about once a year they send us a complete dick."