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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
, U, L% d+ @( Y, F8 E audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 4 [1 R$ y! P: s3 ^1 T
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
% }7 L/ l: p' r7 t6 Z lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
6 U w+ Q4 ^' l 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
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bandages." " |- `6 T4 g# A
# `0 l- I4 b4 l( c) i7 ]( m5 h9 e# r1 v. M "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual : T6 ?* ?9 T, M: F7 u
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
# ?2 k# H! x2 L$ D "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 8 V, r: ^6 z; _3 F0 e7 f1 K
over after setting a cast on a patient?" + s( d5 P' t: s4 X& h7 g& U2 w$ V: i
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to F5 U7 A+ f4 o$ @
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' I7 N( z4 N- z6 r the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 5 ]+ \3 w. ^/ Z. S* p
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
: ~) f3 E; R K# _1 { the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
2 y! d3 x/ [# P) A- Z3 E( C1 } leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" ! e. x3 A5 _- @
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 5 L+ ^+ t2 w8 U
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ' ~% Y6 t$ l2 v4 v
year they send us a complete dick." |
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