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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to : C6 |) X0 H5 k$ G* Y% u
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
. V& ^7 |4 @: w books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a8 h$ S9 T5 f1 q* F( U
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too , v$ \: g* C# [8 _
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 * d6 o4 f( @- A9 G; c" Z& J
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ]6 D! X9 } l
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ! o6 ?+ \, M0 E) ]4 C# b
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 0 {, C: S- X4 ~- x' @( z2 r; Q
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
4 ^: d1 u# i! d1 X) J over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ' O1 X% ~/ i3 n* [9 y
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to / {# Y* O C' V. P1 J: A0 ?9 Y
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
6 h+ ^ l8 q. _8 _$ ~! a% @1 R plaster."
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. m1 U: w) R8 [1 d2 J. j3 G7 L/ U "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 9 e$ P; E" q' P; V2 C# G
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
& R4 l `' t& y0 ~2 d4 r/ m, a0 J leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
8 b l! c2 T) P. G "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 8 N7 d- s* [- x. H+ Y# E! D* \
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
/ i u" e& D. _' B: n year they send us a complete dick." |
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