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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
3 Z: w, b1 R* U audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
: t0 X" Y# {! N) D% v books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a# s' Q" r8 M$ N. x4 W. j
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
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* l1 K$ O4 \2 t9 C "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
: N& I/ s3 _' X: S" T* y u 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 2 G* r! T( k8 ?; `
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 7 A$ ?/ D% `; j8 x7 p! R
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 0 f) k0 D' M! F$ v9 M' t3 H$ h
over after setting a cast on a patient?" " D% r ^( y/ H1 o3 O t1 z
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 3 Q5 i8 U3 x' ?0 m0 c
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
a9 g# h1 Q% W# y9 n the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ' R- T. p1 Z0 E' S6 i
plaster." 5 ?7 \9 Q( G% @* C7 z2 g
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
6 e' O) l+ ]! o/ V! q the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ( i9 S" P, \' E( i! z. ?
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
, [5 j' m' p# V/ G. C9 l1 {- W "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
. O- }8 r, R0 w4 {7 r# Z* T the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 3 z8 b4 @& n- V8 ]& ]9 q7 `
year they send us a complete dick." |
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