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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
8 Q+ L9 C( b; E7 H) h" d6 ]' D audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
1 I& j M9 _3 S$ E1 \) V- {& G9 l books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a4 B9 P% J0 O: u- I$ C' [4 V
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
0 e! l0 L0 p0 w/ D little left to be of any use?"
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/ e6 _ D5 p2 w8 Q8 d4 O "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
7 q2 Z U( }" k6 b the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 4 j8 E4 _1 O; @2 K! D8 F$ q0 A
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual & }; t* j) T2 q2 X3 `$ z6 y% Y
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
- w& B4 f( \# Z n; n' G "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
3 w3 v" X: q/ b& {0 G! `# O over after setting a cast on a patient?" 3 j4 l) K- ~ f" K1 R7 d5 B
( h1 _+ r- D1 D/ C* G9 g1 V) J B "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 4 @6 z& D% E7 W3 J7 H, f
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
3 D9 w9 P1 `: k; h" Z# i0 J the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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4 c" B0 C- b) P+ {8 ~ "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
; _/ B4 d [( V* ] the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ' i2 Z5 a: Y5 M' t1 \: L
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
4 Q% i/ W/ R* W" M$ R" s "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all * }$ y4 G" e9 @! u0 \
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a . V! ?! N! S( }6 t2 V
year they send us a complete dick." |
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