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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to % u5 D1 P4 ^1 f& N, r( `3 p
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
& L. Y- H5 L" s2 ~) n1 ~ books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a4 ~: a* r5 N0 N c$ B4 [' c
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 9 l0 T1 V2 [4 g
little left to be of any use?"
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' ~6 r" ?1 S) p ]7 l "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ( m+ \) |" i9 ?
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
4 v0 n8 w, e8 @2 t% ] bandages." & U/ _2 E/ W- z
/ S0 a; V+ H& ` "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
( ^/ L0 p7 W, P) p question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 3 ?& C0 F) M5 L+ d& t
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
1 c9 s- e7 r/ h/ ^ h3 x) \ over after setting a cast on a patient?" . J2 I9 [5 S' G/ Z
) I a# J6 Q: K) G v- @ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
3 m. `4 `$ J* I: p# A trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' j( \2 ?6 Y% \- `& k" `( [/ { the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ) o' j# H; `: e# ?% w! e) A
plaster." / c7 T X% y) [: {! _3 N
0 u" e$ o: s' ]8 J8 x: T "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
" s6 F# J% Z$ x the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the - W+ [0 k$ A2 }/ z7 a& k7 N# `
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
5 p k) b1 n, _! o1 ~/ T "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
( R6 D* F' y" B. X4 V+ l1 w/ l the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 8 [8 Q! x w* L7 `, a
year they send us a complete dick." |
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