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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to & H) G/ I1 J' j, {& M# r" b q& I% y
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
& Y! _5 A9 o' R7 w: ]% s7 h: \ books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
& i0 Y4 I5 _ X4 {# b+ @/ N; ]1 Z lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too : K5 g; Q- A4 B q: _
little left to be of any use?"
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3 L) l+ `9 ?. t$ y5 |/ o% _9 |5 ? "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
; F, o: F4 w' k, D2 h the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of + R, k5 ^: s) v# ?7 T b
bandages."
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# w6 Q% n! P- `. ?0 i "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
9 L4 v2 [8 h5 Q& P: K. s8 A question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 3 E, h) Z9 p$ l
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
% d: S2 s1 z* c9 _" D- K4 E$ J+ F over after setting a cast on a patient?" # }2 F Z0 _! x$ W" A1 L
; \( {2 ]3 r, n8 v* m A+ t "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 0 h$ v8 b' ~2 s) n
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
* y# w, l! p. D9 ?5 i, ~$ y the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of . e3 v8 m& J2 m6 \) v. ]
plaster."
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) x2 o8 ?. K8 p6 U "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
! I& _4 Y8 p6 _) T& E# E the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
8 l9 N' Q1 U) G. h7 y leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
2 a( U1 D. K- ]3 O v "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all , e7 `8 o* D. z
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
9 d1 D' U$ E0 C( s' M: p6 F year they send us a complete dick." |
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