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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ) |( ]) [; f Z7 ^3 R1 W8 a
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 0 `" }' {9 ^ |
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a+ U4 N. ^3 Z" m5 J# C
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
7 P0 `7 T4 x) V$ O6 o/ y5 j# Z* X6 c little left to be of any use?" + l7 j9 O& e3 y. Z0 |1 Y6 X; t
/ n; y3 C$ o, N v4 A# L0 f; C "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
2 q1 r( `/ \' S, `" K5 A the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of / J+ C% H ~4 Q' x ~) Z) t
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
% B; e0 `4 n2 C" H; O question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
) h6 O4 y* t# h "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ( _& X! O |/ I; G3 C1 R# x
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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8 H3 `. d! d: `* N/ _( u% l; C "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 1 e7 O5 H- B v) f
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to , x% X( N6 k, l& \
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of - x3 z F( ^9 |1 C: y i
plaster." 2 ^% Z+ O* e2 h& K' a; t7 I$ j
; a4 u9 r* l3 B) @ "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 7 w$ Q, f7 r9 h9 g; G
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
( i& \' J3 P- s8 l- A2 Q leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
7 H2 U: R) S! a0 n "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
8 C8 J$ W; p$ \/ R1 z( i4 g the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 4 z: D7 p9 ^! ~9 H6 ~* {1 ^
year they send us a complete dick." |
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