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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 2 ~' w1 f; k/ v( m% w# m
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
( {% g( M4 W$ L: E0 p books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
+ C5 r3 v* M1 \1 [3 D( a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too / n4 v! q8 C2 }4 D- h
little left to be of any use?" : A9 L! ^9 k6 j3 p% w0 m4 A
( N' Q6 B- y2 N: D1 `9 ?/ ]& R "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to # }: j+ B, `+ Q& r, ~/ z
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ; ^4 q2 W. w. L1 q
bandages." # z+ | [+ V4 u2 s7 M2 X
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
5 _- S/ E0 w+ o2 j: I `( b0 U question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
3 O ~4 r# a# S9 f0 c8 H2 t "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left " T4 E1 N% x8 e0 S4 G
over after setting a cast on a patient?" * N' L3 p( {& v! o+ e* Z6 [
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
1 P1 t1 N% W0 Z+ X5 G) [# t: Z trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
4 ~8 p' ]- V' j+ p3 A the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
; D6 `9 b9 f# H+ h plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
+ n9 l* W# l' ^& X9 h% ` the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 0 q* l. w! y5 g1 L4 @4 u9 y
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
. [2 ~8 m: g U+ k "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
: Y' ^" M! ^6 C# ?4 S; b8 J the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ( c E; I4 A( m1 |8 R1 U) ]! E! C1 n
year they send us a complete dick." |
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