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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
5 A) X! I. O8 Z1 S audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the # {! n1 _ e( h% w4 Q0 e& p
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
: {% K( t" [2 m: N" e$ W |6 V, t lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
0 d2 J/ s+ x" u6 T little left to be of any use?"
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) K' d% S- E2 g! R; C- H "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to : C+ i& P* C0 R% h" [5 [# M0 O
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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) V, Z* W. V6 ?. Q% |( d "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual - b( e! D& j) k# D7 K
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. % |, i- i( [& T. I* _: V
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
5 p8 H* z; T2 j$ Z8 X; u3 b* Q) w% ~ over after setting a cast on a patient?" . T8 p* ^9 W, |7 m* B
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 1 C0 c# [* J) \3 a5 C6 Z* P4 V+ Y
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 1 u0 y. N n7 q* [( `6 v
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ' Y0 _- R) l3 S& z
plaster."
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5 ^8 {+ S: X0 S2 n "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster $ n" i+ S) d' A2 E5 t
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 3 ~$ G8 v1 _* |, u
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 2 S3 Z8 t+ e# p2 o( h4 }) i" w
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all . M t4 V- S* a5 g* \5 V
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a . ^, S- ?1 b2 @/ c
year they send us a complete dick." |
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