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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
3 h: g4 O6 r, o/ @ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 7 k( W% O* w! {
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a3 n% R7 T9 X i
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too " K- W8 r5 C1 L8 V- p
little left to be of any use?" # N4 ?8 I& u s% w$ X8 d
/ a+ P6 M- G: z7 a5 d) g6 Y "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
! G5 ?$ l! Q' Q. z0 A. t 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 ) O& Q+ y3 h$ Z+ k$ j. ~
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
+ ]0 ?+ m4 @* C( Q; d "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 5 }% }, i2 M2 T9 b3 H
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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( V1 c; c9 R+ C5 x1 Y "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ' \( Y( ~! v# f3 _
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
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plaster."
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; [ \: n2 x) o; S7 a8 G "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
1 w$ M% N8 b, Q" } P the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 2 T; X/ O6 `1 A2 |! M- s
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
( Z$ v/ m5 @1 d& ?2 g7 v( u "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all / F$ L4 |9 ?7 O/ s a# ?+ J
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a - R# W, S/ O1 i( o: Z
year they send us a complete dick." |
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