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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
7 z3 E7 q6 t3 L5 p" ? audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
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- }5 E7 K# X+ o: n6 ~$ ` lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 9 v S( f1 h& Q7 o, I
little left to be of any use?"
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! S1 S3 `1 k& `9 D. I! P7 K "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ; X X) ]1 K( t9 S2 \3 J
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of : H2 K# z0 Q7 L8 u6 w% K
bandages." & i$ z) g! s- Y" c
0 H% n! u `) r3 ` "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
+ B+ d; X. _1 ?# U question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
; x P. y- O8 I "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left # u1 c7 X0 _: W. y1 d8 W, |% }
over after setting a cast on a patient?" # o6 w/ J$ }0 u* ~/ M3 ]
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 2 m/ D' h4 L2 X2 S8 Z0 k# A2 V
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ) L' ~2 m' |( @+ c6 p* g- I+ }
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 8 z6 k3 r( u* G+ }1 z+ V+ Z
plaster."
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" |/ T0 O- L( a! {: J( W1 u2 L "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster % l/ h2 d8 T) p+ w- l8 l4 H5 j
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the - L) w) d. x: J* y9 z5 |
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
2 }4 M) n( l* x "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
! e/ b1 L, \9 A# X K the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
/ C: H/ ?8 l( b2 r+ R/ { year they send us a complete dick." |
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