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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
( r6 m9 T0 a$ c& w+ _ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the & r9 A( E" z9 a+ u7 R
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
* D8 [, q9 t* A C9 A @* i9 ? lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too $ w! A6 N5 j( D @- G( q
little left to be of any use?"
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: T0 J. J$ l3 {8 y3 |, b) C "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
2 Y$ Z# t Y3 b2 A- G$ b9 W9 r the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 2 r& ?# r) D3 k% C1 `
bandages." ) B( z- i: A9 f
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual " Y( {& ]- G% j ~ m
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
5 U/ B' U$ G1 V' z& ~" ?: g "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left Y* \; Y0 l& ?+ [! N( D9 N$ e
over after setting a cast on a patient?" * j# n( }5 P6 t! {
% r, e; J- h. H0 e "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 7 U0 n$ r! j9 v" u0 _: p
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
0 }( W, x0 k! N the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 4 I( x/ v8 O5 H/ p/ M
plaster." 6 \( K% O0 b; m% L
) C% W& @, g5 p7 e R "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster / K0 h5 c& S: e3 r
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
n9 c: m0 k8 j. ?& [! W) R leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
3 R+ q @& o) P; x "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ; [0 g1 ^, s, A2 G
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a & X1 y: p' P. i( \7 ~9 g
year they send us a complete dick." |
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