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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 2 v# h8 N1 K% G! `
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ' o4 y0 o& w, C$ i/ {. ]6 J
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
- G$ ]3 T2 ]0 x3 O3 m lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
- M9 J( P5 Z! A) O# h* m S# h 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
1 J! n- j4 p# }2 t0 U- p; O 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 S7 X& G! w+ ]
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
% F" J( g& _" ~5 I! o "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left . R( f0 G" l: B1 v. u
over after setting a cast on a patient?" , [& F& l! K: S8 R9 T6 \ e
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to $ [* v; }( T2 O# x
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to : ?' E+ ^) X) T" {* X) W* Y6 |) Z
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
6 [/ j- F) `: s$ h, [. g3 h plaster."
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6 M Y% w8 Q5 l( E/ p "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 8 _% I" h$ X( k% r" E$ b5 C% \
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ( T# `3 x$ O3 C( _' q2 d
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" - V1 L2 T2 D0 V, e7 C
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
0 D3 \6 z) h: T8 W7 I& C, \ the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
* j8 B$ J1 W6 U" _ year they send us a complete dick." |
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