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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ) ?' F; I" [& `7 `) M3 G2 I
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
7 d' F5 M" D3 `2 q! M8 R) D7 w books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a& g% }6 p# K3 ]" f6 a/ _
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
1 T5 y' `* L. s+ d little left to be of any use?"
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' B; {- m8 E. h# e, p "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
8 P5 J3 G, X, f4 |4 W! F the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of # y9 ^ r" z0 O; E9 Z
bandages." 8 j- l7 }" ^; k) e3 U) D
, I9 K' N! m' p4 {- A "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 6 S2 M( M; a' l2 n4 p
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 1 j3 O# g2 w) ^/ x5 N; q$ A6 h
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
) }( m: g- V# Y: @; _* J over after setting a cast on a patient?" + ]- }) u0 v N
! M8 i0 ], O# m+ B# ]/ S "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to $ M( E8 J7 C% r. L
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
! {* @, w) b, `3 {# X( e the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ! T7 d6 G) T7 r; }
plaster." - H) b1 F0 D. U3 p( C$ [+ z
$ \2 S1 F! y6 d, K "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
: |1 M: w: U: Q the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the - X: l& G5 q {+ ]6 ]
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
( h; `! d/ f6 O3 z1 y "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
* W% @# [, D# q9 e+ W7 s, O the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
" `; W' X& `4 ?9 }) z1 y* ~ year they send us a complete dick." |
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