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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 1 y& o# Y) d0 I0 C. e! x
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
0 u8 _$ `% z, W) R; E5 t( T7 ?7 B books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
5 T3 y7 s, b9 O9 Z lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
! S/ G$ S- j( ^/ v5 D" | little left to be of any use?" 1 U+ l1 v3 D7 @0 J( @
, O/ X! U* o/ h+ X4 l "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to # i2 z$ m: a0 B z1 K
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
. ]% M4 ^! j4 I0 ?) x0 c7 F7 S) ^ bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
9 D% B- I; ?& \" W question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 6 ] [7 B" v9 N- |( H! o( w2 a* A
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
6 f3 a! u1 s$ y over after setting a cast on a patient?" 1 {/ S8 U" Q% x" a+ Z& ~& h
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to % L3 b& _ A3 f5 q3 l" J
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
6 P8 U) P6 K$ f the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 7 T/ t: l% F1 ~, z) h; X/ b
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
, ?5 J2 ^7 B0 T& `$ W- H the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
9 p+ L) p/ i6 T; D leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" ' f/ R' _/ _( k
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all % T" O/ N8 i1 R; K4 I9 {
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
7 Y1 |: O2 I! M) L year they send us a complete dick." |
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