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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
' @" |6 B0 c1 A4 U5 b audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the # Z, v8 L$ V% p* u! R# }8 |) L* }
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
: N" j4 ]2 S$ T2 ~ lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too , \1 W3 ^! D& T2 @5 {! i- c
little left to be of any use?" 7 m& n. v) F* g7 M6 M" J' _/ Y
$ I. n9 _, r8 e/ k8 i "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
" m$ X- [8 j2 U, L3 l0 ?9 q6 r# e+ ~ 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 0 ^& z( Y4 ^% N) v$ b4 a O. e
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
! Y* G. T1 K. Y6 W% x; \: N "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
4 k! n. {( b/ a8 _% \ over after setting a cast on a patient?" 8 I3 l- ^. R7 y9 x7 n0 ?6 T' w; j1 g
+ O0 X! c: e5 S" H9 ~% E "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
- t; f3 _# @8 V trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to % N$ ?# z6 p1 D$ A# J7 c' @8 f; _
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 6 ?" u5 W: e/ f" m; ?$ o2 K
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
! z! u( s* z" T3 t' u' q- y C4 T leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
2 Z; ~0 `# F1 | "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ; ?( G4 J4 ?* J O* ?
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
& K7 F2 }6 N- s) q G year they send us a complete dick." |
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