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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 1 K8 Q+ U6 h3 j
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 5 s$ ]9 [% ^0 m) e, q4 M( z
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
( E, A& _! X' d- J( c& p1 H lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
, |. b6 B' n7 q( J* Y 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 5 v* r" L8 V2 J+ M, m1 I7 u
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
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"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left : C$ T/ p0 B( @9 R5 h* P1 t2 l# E
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 0 H! _% a/ a) S# V n
! z, Y( o7 p3 m% d& g. N "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ( ?* n8 }# |+ ^$ q( h
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
4 ?; ?4 Y( {2 }8 e) n4 ]/ ~) Y( {5 ~ the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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0 ?4 S$ B- Y' ^9 S' o "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
: ?( ?- v. Z, Q" I/ E2 K1 U! r the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 4 W4 {- d. @- y& M
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" " v+ H3 i% p) @2 {/ v. f6 B/ u* [& _
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
+ }1 m* _3 Y5 q, u: A; A the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ' ]( b. f1 u& U" ?0 H7 @% Q
year they send us a complete dick." |
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