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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 2 f j [* W6 v8 S- |9 U/ |, P* c
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* G S& n/ Z- l6 \' `* U books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a5 `4 C& R) r0 d1 Y
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
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bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
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"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left # w) [1 D; N3 I- x! A1 F1 l- p* P
over after setting a cast on a patient?" + v1 S: N6 G. T1 |) D
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
5 p% E& r6 {, E0 @# h# L trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 5 X, T. \7 ~. O3 d4 |! s3 _
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of + p7 L0 N7 K% T$ M" p6 _
plaster."
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- G, L, A# [! O1 l9 w) \. c "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster " g1 S5 J3 {# B4 [" m
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the * h8 l- t, l [1 k# z
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
: N0 x7 f$ o) ?2 |% x( e "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all $ p, K0 z5 \2 R* s. p# W
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
M+ l6 M0 K9 V. ]% ~5 Z) @" l year they send us a complete dick." |
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