Sunday, June 28, 2009

Sunday Funnies; Volume 70.

At the end of the tax year, the IRS sent an auditor to audit the books of a Synagogue. While he was checking the books he turned to the Rabbi and said, 'I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?' 'Good question,' noted the Rabbi. 'We save them up and send them back to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles.' '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 bread-wafer purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?' 'Ah, yes,' replied the Rabbi, realising that the auditor was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. 'We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send us a free box of bread-wafers.' 'I see,' replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all Rabbi. 'Well, Rabbi,' 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 Rabbi... 'What we do is save all the foreskins and send them to the IRS, and about once a year they send us a complete DICK ...

1 comment:

Jay Moreno said...

Before anyone goes there, yes, i do realize that a U.S. synagogue would be tax exempt and of no interest to the IRS. The joke was sent to me by my Uncle Harry who lives in Australia. All of the refereneces to the IRS were inserted by me rather than use the comparable Australian terms in the original which would have been a bit confusing or, at least, not recognizable to Americans.