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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
6 D$ z* ]7 e8 O/ x$ M' p audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 1 h/ j2 s1 _ t, ]. L! y0 @
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a- m5 }7 y2 c3 e; U5 A
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
" o2 d/ l, \" E% Q7 R little left to be of any use?"
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' P! _7 w5 x, o3 C+ O; _/ O6 x "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
& l0 C1 b, c3 x @% ~ the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 6 O8 ~* l, s# _# ~4 X4 W- E2 [
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
4 c3 K) W5 ]: p9 X9 t9 z) | question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. , I7 w+ h- S' F% c# {6 ]
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ' U s5 f9 b3 S
over after setting a cast on a patient?" , R/ w' S, T* `$ B; s2 d
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to % i. M. a1 `1 p2 y" p; [+ J% H( L
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
, X+ j* [5 R& _3 ^- l1 ]9 r the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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7 k1 p/ h+ b1 ?& ?2 u- A9 X2 D "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster , m: r% Y" ~6 X+ A! x: `
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
" I" V+ f/ U8 k1 W0 R+ S5 J/ u leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" + D& n& v* A) V6 ]
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 9 W6 M9 S1 m i( ~/ _5 A/ e
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
: \6 Z8 n7 H4 _; v6 [ year they send us a complete dick." |
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