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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
9 w3 _3 O2 q2 d audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
% a6 @8 I8 s& J/ e books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a! O/ S6 b- K9 T' ~" u
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 0 u* D( E) P, e
little left to be of any use?" . b. }1 u% u1 O% i! V
/ O: t0 q# z- u; @ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ( S' G" R3 t) i0 V V% L
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
* ^. n1 }6 e. G+ @ bandages."
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+ f! \$ D( `' X3 x. p "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
# I( D2 L9 a* M; V3 ` question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ; v: g$ ~3 p5 t u5 e
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ( b! y+ E, _) T! d
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 8 w# t- _/ o3 B
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
: [0 W. T7 U' A2 K8 G trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
6 E) J& }9 |0 }' p4 g- d+ Z; u the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
5 D6 _! j* K% o& H" o9 v plaster."
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2 O4 n/ K; R: [0 {8 g4 G "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster $ {, r/ I4 S1 ^, H& S, N6 p C
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
" ]9 j) s8 j4 c8 i' ]+ b8 x leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" % V- P: t3 i5 O+ M6 R
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all . P: } p9 ^9 C' |# g* y7 @
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a - p" y% n6 w7 `! ~/ S3 y
year they send us a complete dick." |
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