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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to / _! M, [! s! S. S
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
& ^9 G+ X2 r7 O2 l0 w; @0 N4 Z books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a$ b l3 e' l6 t
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
6 `* y0 T, n' p P2 ~ little left to be of any use?" ; R' t* }4 S }* r
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to : k; p* l& G$ a5 k
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of / f n* i- L, ~, x Z, ]
bandages."
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$ M' ?0 w0 ~' S) [ "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ' \1 `1 ^( v% x$ s# V: {5 ^
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
- r" F6 P) } z! c1 a "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
) G- D5 D& K8 S. L1 _* B) w$ f over after setting a cast on a patient?" {& C) Y* d {2 k; h+ U3 v
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 1 E/ w1 U x% e# c1 Z* K
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 0 e! d: k( T, |+ `
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
( C% t8 `- z5 b9 U. T plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 5 B; K, K `% O
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the + E: n1 D- V' m* f" o; i
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" . V/ y5 n& _& q n( Q1 J* e
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all # \& t: }& v7 D7 D; U% k
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
% [8 K! i- O" c$ m/ |5 [ year they send us a complete dick." |
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