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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to & E1 o! |; r' l0 _' O
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
5 q/ q) H/ {4 c* A" ~, A books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
. E* A8 |* a; u n$ [& X, M5 @- M lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 3 E3 p$ ?9 B8 l9 y9 g1 ^; W
little left to be of any use?" + Q- h' L1 y0 I6 m. [' h1 |, {
/ F) M, [ y+ \3 ~) R/ } "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 7 Z; J+ |* ~4 A' e2 @" |2 [& X
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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) w. P% z2 U) u. e "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual - p4 B9 g0 Y8 e, }
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. # T `/ b9 P# f( G6 c9 x0 N
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
( ]4 Q) r8 M2 i, Y$ b, l0 ^ over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
8 H2 a4 S; p p9 s3 I trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
+ f7 j. V+ R& c a" J b the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 9 o5 o3 R7 Q {
plaster."
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8 v! _& U/ D+ Y1 p* ~' n! [2 R- Y9 m "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster - e7 M5 D) L, z! F0 T
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the , O* A# Z. r, k8 K% I; g' ^
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
" m, H' g, e+ S- y: P# y "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all # u2 w6 T& X7 U: [ u9 t0 K* O
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
! K0 n _: r8 L( F% l1 i; H year they send us a complete dick." |
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