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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ) ?8 r% u) a6 r! z W. x6 B' t
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
! v; M% {( }% \0 I9 L" u- y books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a9 H3 z5 s2 \, S
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 4 Y# D2 J, g. O5 R( b/ L* T
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 8 d) @* v! [/ I: \8 w' X) q
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ) H. y! m% K1 ^
bandages." ) E0 F" p1 V( r1 C, H8 Y5 g7 V, X
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
$ O0 \. X+ Y. G question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
% s. v9 v9 ?" T "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
, O. V9 O! R( m- p. b# ]& J6 U. v over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
" I3 {; W4 s C" e6 ~! ` trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 8 Z# t6 T$ h! L& o, w; a
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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5 `: }$ l! {: Z3 K$ u1 g9 T "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
& @. T& L/ U: f9 C, O8 V; _9 l \ the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 3 |# R( v! x( B+ O* x6 W7 o& x7 P
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 7 ^6 L7 Z0 M8 u4 e' q5 [
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
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year they send us a complete dick." |
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