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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ) L8 z Q. f; I% o# d: Q. _
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
$ T* j9 L# D1 q' q$ [) D books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a! u, m# p8 @' a3 o% C6 E( \
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
3 ~2 [3 B. F1 n3 q% `( e" o% { little left to be of any use?" 8 v# l& V# `% t2 M
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
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bandages." - N: v |$ Q$ F5 m
# n; [6 v! j" n" X5 r "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
3 n2 w* Z* z: L+ E question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. / Y5 d8 e) I' ~0 \
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
& ^3 r+ g+ [3 ~! K* t. u over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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2 j0 f+ p" k1 S! y/ } "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to u& `: v6 Y+ i. S& H- x
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 2 T* z( W6 ]7 E8 V1 ^3 A
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of + n: H) }3 P- y
plaster." " [. }+ g! e* g" Z; @4 b& G7 X3 D% w
+ u, Z9 P5 C" Y: j7 | "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
0 O8 T& U& n( H' K0 ] the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
/ @" f, o" ]9 q, T$ R" o2 p leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 5 e2 ~/ P7 e3 ?% M/ a9 U
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all + A& d; k) _/ g* ^
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
- y. t1 l! Y6 H ? year they send us a complete dick." |
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