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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ) e9 B8 n7 h7 W% y
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
/ n1 b6 v3 s( ^5 u$ |0 e* Y books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a- K% t. p, O' M' @
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
% P) z; ]; G/ J+ J0 k( L little left to be of any use?" 9 W, J$ K% T" I J: c" W
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 8 `: _ s4 W/ ^; ^ ^, [6 Z8 d
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 9 {9 [! ] e# P) v3 Z) d' U
bandages." ! Y6 _# U! a" r$ d/ K
( _, {' E7 m3 { "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
/ d7 l8 F, y! B, j$ S! G2 U question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. - [/ Q8 N0 h6 u5 Q" v/ A! h7 T. g0 s
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left + P3 ?, a2 c+ N2 Z
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 3 N: n! y+ t* ?( W: ^3 r7 ~
4 ^( G* s$ T. @$ R "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to # P& |/ Y$ z& S
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to P0 ?! i* l5 _" a3 w: m
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of , w' C6 v7 ?+ P" {& {9 h
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 6 u. T# b6 d8 r3 o& g, q' Y9 V
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
& r9 A0 ~# O& D8 } leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" R4 k; U: r A$ L) i5 ~
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 9 @4 e$ `' B- n$ {9 R
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a - h: f% i7 M5 m" o9 r+ k
year they send us a complete dick." |
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