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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ( Q. ?* ?+ V6 F9 T. L7 Z, q
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
' ^. Z L8 g6 S1 m2 V6 M* X+ Y- c5 y books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
$ p O9 e w& b5 x; o0 N lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too . i5 b* e Z y" W
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 , T4 z+ I. w, `( H" c
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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9 r* ~" O7 W1 N/ x "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
8 r) U2 Z9 r( e7 r question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ' M6 }1 r0 d: I* E) F0 Q: Z3 R
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 2 b% L( T1 ~0 l& p, y
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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- z* V# O" I5 R; Q "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
8 i2 i8 w1 `1 d' c% d5 Q" K trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 7 c: s- U5 p; m3 k( L+ z
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
0 N Y; ?2 q! L the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 5 h4 _# t5 |, I/ g- a
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" % X8 }, \7 ?4 K- ^; J
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 2 U% x9 {, M) K" t# b& g
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ) t+ D3 t# W+ n2 H9 Z7 Y$ g
year they send us a complete dick." |
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