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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
7 D& C1 w' _$ u h" [3 u( G lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
# X" [; k$ A5 t5 v" r: T little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ( v1 W, w2 v+ Q7 a. H
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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( s# @( ^% x# I7 U* o! m "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
1 F. b/ L% Y/ W' B" A- c* J8 E& w question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
6 {% z; x2 f5 D3 y( i$ t5 \5 `! G "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
; R, Q2 z% Y9 ?' c over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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/ M$ W$ |, M$ e "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to $ M- g; }; h# Z$ B `6 _3 A
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 6 _- r, [* K1 o7 i4 h/ [0 O. Z
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of " z7 ?( Q3 w3 {( t
plaster." # p7 S6 n7 G' z7 K# M8 j+ S* h
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ) c5 ~& P0 a/ w* H: P6 Q# }
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
" ~- e. ^- @. f% f) j% G4 t, h0 E, E leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
! }* G7 k3 V C! i& W, s0 w "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
q; `3 s1 S$ a' W the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
2 R4 b+ l9 s% V year they send us a complete dick." |
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