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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to + \/ |$ U0 g1 K r
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
. L+ T. L k+ |4 d& I" e books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
4 M. a+ ]6 h, ~( W# U lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ) L( \' i/ @' D" `- V$ W, u( z( R4 k
little left to be of any use?" + k+ ^ F2 a, k
. b% {8 I) M. a# N4 D8 ?1 [ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
" q+ ~: i# Y* w the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 0 Z# F4 L8 T* q! f8 ^
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 1 F; S, b( a9 o: Z
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
8 c3 w1 A4 D& n+ a; J4 g "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
+ \# N4 m! F4 n( q over after setting a cast on a patient?" & E* ~! Z9 g. n4 E1 L9 Z! @
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
' u( W4 j9 P: F. O) Z& |& ?2 C7 Q' _ trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
# Y! g! }( |' `+ C$ | the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
% D6 U" _) q+ ]5 `, t7 G plaster."
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n O+ ]0 u( Y5 S* ]& e9 `1 w "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ' R( ~: {5 C3 h: a7 V: X
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
! H( K1 `: E# Q G) g- I i4 p4 T leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" $ _0 P) ~- O7 F% K0 w
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 0 c5 b: r+ T1 C& a! O" ~
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
' d k" }; a q- r year they send us a complete dick." |
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