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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to * [6 |3 P( }- Y" F
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the - R8 x5 m( Q9 W$ M6 _% S; u
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a X4 L4 `- x1 T+ E$ n
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
1 p- B; U+ w2 G# J0 B3 o5 a. y: Q# } little left to be of any use?" / `% [! A# V) n' X& ]' e
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to + f; j; y8 ]$ n
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
1 E' [' a& n1 n. `# p question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. % B' D5 p: V9 ~2 u! H
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ; S0 V- g" c ^1 ~* Z: H q2 w
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to : M3 I( L% p0 H; X
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
( a. m+ x: H6 y% a% t. p9 e* d the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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- ^: @8 W- E. Q) _ H3 X "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster " o# ~' h' ]. b1 _
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the % |% ?3 e$ X# u: a6 h! o8 O: E
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 6 V; @% h( d2 F# K, O
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 3 {5 r3 C0 h7 @4 S
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
H" X( R# g' m1 V' G9 \. [# B7 L year they send us a complete dick." |
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