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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
3 U; b* e7 T9 x7 b audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
/ p$ C& f* k+ [* a# h; Z4 B books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
& D+ t; y$ @1 y4 H lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 2 y& j f7 c3 Z ^2 G) i, }
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
& o2 R7 h1 @0 G& E2 v2 d& x the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
, s( Z* L5 y! M C* K bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
% n+ N5 O2 c- O `/ G2 z( H question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
9 q3 R2 \8 x: \, c8 x "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left " s9 ?9 u, N: j6 W& P1 H' h" p
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 6 h. X- W* X- A" h1 m
& H7 y* W/ q% N7 m "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
( e6 c! X! {3 R" h9 [' n# w trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to - {4 }' m; r0 q
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 3 f0 t& C; b- h# J1 T* i
plaster." 0 |% k v3 F7 v! b
9 z) ~1 |- O# e3 _ "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster . K! a1 j8 L0 K U
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ) O. A0 c [# U3 A
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 7 z! B: G+ K* C( k6 m; A
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
+ A: |! c/ a& c% S, ^8 d3 _ the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a / \: N; _" O7 _7 a
year they send us a complete dick." |
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