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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ; R4 A6 m5 M7 z, o# {
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
: R5 y. r `7 p4 `9 A books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
4 D7 f+ P& i5 C7 ]6 J0 v lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to e) e& s% z9 w1 V# K8 z
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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) y3 ?, M! M- p0 y( I8 Z1 m "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 9 I; e! u! p7 s# |0 ^
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
4 u t L+ H% P) A "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
+ p8 k6 F7 ]+ J+ `# A4 f, c' A over after setting a cast on a patient?" ( V+ {2 { r% e* Q. {
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to # ~( c2 x1 T. W3 j
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to . U' i: ?7 S! k+ D- m
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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; ^$ Q. d5 q5 l* j' }! X8 C* d "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster . n. d' H# k" Z
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
. j2 i3 ~( Y- `; W9 b leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" . x5 @ E; w* V5 [4 t& \
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all & b {) v; D Q) `; @: e
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a , B, \; Z3 ^; V1 [
year they send us a complete dick." |
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