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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
7 [1 e9 w& F2 s" Q( p2 n9 k6 \# J audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ( k5 G3 S$ x# K9 i4 b# ^# G( N
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
7 s/ l$ @2 |8 `: B9 ^; p& r lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
0 {: U( A$ Y& k+ m little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to . t9 i5 @7 K7 c
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
% n9 J l5 }( G; M6 P3 S# g bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
. i6 _2 P6 F( v+ T0 i question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
. [1 S2 Q1 @& Y- u& O "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
+ q0 _6 V$ p9 D" V over after setting a cast on a patient?" * j( Y4 U- q" y, w3 o5 G: W* P
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
0 h Y I( v4 y+ x* C3 [( Q( K# @ trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
9 r. v D* B& r l$ n; \ the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
4 A; c* L; z+ W plaster." 5 R8 C* o4 H6 |) O) W
, x' h* n, S3 n/ t& l "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster " v+ {' p. ^$ J5 u B/ c6 Y
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the - Z, G$ P8 n# G; f! c2 i
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
$ U5 l: [, r) b% i" D. Z "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
, L5 u* L4 ?- Y5 @6 l! l the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
* J1 ]9 u- ]2 I) Y6 M" ~; l" u4 k year they send us a complete dick." |
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