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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
* `9 h: s: [; I4 v$ A- Q, v audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
" d$ `7 c( b6 d% Y I6 Y1 p% o4 ^7 ~ books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a9 V' B; P* ]6 @, l1 q% v5 N
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too . r$ c- C; U& b( E/ a3 @
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 / M: V/ q O7 [. o
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
% k$ r& k( I6 \2 d8 b# }8 Q8 D bandages."
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1 y' |, T/ j0 k, k+ P) r( z/ n "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
5 ^# ]& L( g$ E4 y! M question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
/ R, y4 v( n& W0 O9 a "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
2 l- y& ]" W1 }0 I: k+ f, p# { over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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; R2 q, O6 h# X V5 q1 q" W( R "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to , ]( s3 R2 A4 s3 E3 W
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 6 d# P+ ~1 y/ S% ]; m8 G
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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7 o1 M6 P) x# T "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
0 y. w( M) c, w3 l5 J/ A the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
" t7 y# y* z4 b: K* n) ~ leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
0 ~; ~7 F- f; v E$ i "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ! T5 k- k M# f- l
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
; _( f- c; p& x6 H7 | year they send us a complete dick." |
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