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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 0 L( |( O* N3 H3 t1 H% K
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 1 b& f, k! ]" w9 F
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
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little left to be of any use?" # k9 \ U( Q- Z; o8 x: W
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to $ g- x! ^; Q9 W- x( ^# t# z% k! ]
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
9 [9 w! E4 N1 |0 } question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. $ [* U* y4 i. _" J# @3 f4 q/ X. z
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left g* G. V. o8 x7 K l0 C3 f
over after setting a cast on a patient?" % `) K7 D, F) `. W Q0 U& [
% c" ] z5 k2 [2 J# u; u- ^ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 6 s6 m& H3 ] v( U
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
: z* q3 \2 S$ u0 x9 i- T the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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- i% @/ q" O2 F "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
- K5 _7 v( O g' w9 [. C the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 0 V, n4 y$ [2 J
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
1 E: z y, ~" j; \4 ~- ~1 V "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
8 c- S( H9 y9 b the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ! o6 J* y* F, r0 l& L; E9 z1 k
year they send us a complete dick." |
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