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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ' ], l% {! q/ C) B( f2 @
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
3 R; b, \ j0 _% w! \$ C books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
6 I& ]+ c$ w! o) u% ? lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
( T4 o u/ Y j6 c little left to be of any use?" # j6 R& B5 x2 |* Z
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
" [8 _0 W1 K. Y( z0 n the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of / z2 K) x8 q* ]8 X' C9 ^) e* h
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
& S6 l+ F- ~* w0 t l0 G5 A& N question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
$ w; l2 f" [" g( j "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 4 z1 \ ]. ?! a4 j; |
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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/ E) z K% J$ J "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to , D: q8 Y+ m: C; ]/ p% a. ~
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ' O* q% M9 H; E7 [8 v
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 5 [! b5 O) C3 [$ B+ H
plaster." ' H. p# ^6 B, X% j" M
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ' U3 X4 H5 c" K. i
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the % }7 n3 `# o& B3 i% T. Q
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
. f; Y) g% c4 A i/ W; O "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 5 @+ N8 l' Z+ o: n; R+ t$ W
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
6 i! H7 A5 r1 u ] year they send us a complete dick." |
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