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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to & o* F6 l0 e7 C& e/ ]! {
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the % N T- ~6 _- @- l3 n* X% G
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
$ l( V: K3 G X4 O$ W7 \ lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too " s4 `* }: J8 M
little left to be of any use?" ' b6 y. D$ h- S: b$ Z
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
( C8 }& G7 e V, j$ N$ L J7 l6 z the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 2 J# g. a' p* U# [( v
bandages."
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: w/ W4 S" {/ S' e8 b "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
* O' o- j6 z$ X- w question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ( r+ t: q' k% f! K) X
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ! N8 l. g+ x2 G7 \1 Y
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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% f. y' e3 d0 D4 }; C$ X "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
) A; l0 I; c1 D trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 3 N* C) y. A% ^( X
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
$ S) k7 h5 e! ? plaster."
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) x! S. f3 r. {' a2 o0 Q "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
8 H W! |( u/ O- H the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the & o7 L6 ]' v& K8 S3 a
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 7 y& k' A2 E, E$ v- ?8 \+ ]
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
3 ~& E0 L: U, C/ q) ?3 y the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a * H; j. x" P$ ?* b, a
year they send us a complete dick." |
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