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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 8 ?, V$ h8 ?9 d) @( U$ _, v D" }
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
5 M7 k& O" W5 c books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a$ `/ N/ n, q+ b4 C1 P
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
" d3 P5 `& O) P# @2 e little left to be of any use?" ) f( Q1 y3 m! B+ D. }! k! `+ v
7 d, P$ F/ E5 q) s! _# y "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to , `$ F" |9 f% `$ p5 a9 T& H
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
' o% T5 N4 s9 g: _2 J) w" ~ question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
4 i2 y$ k- b# I( Q1 Y( ~2 m4 S "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 8 g3 s% B- ~3 H+ r+ B
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
* i" y4 ]# W. d8 x7 @6 y trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
! W2 R2 `2 Z9 g9 S6 h the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of . I/ u' D0 L0 O4 W, @* f: c; i3 x
plaster." , j8 `$ @8 ]& ^6 ^
$ X: ?& b( D( F5 p+ T d "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
$ }5 J- k& `2 g* h8 f" }9 | f the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
4 y8 Y5 f5 j6 p! Y! | leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
% g8 g+ Y3 V9 n* O. _$ D "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
) g( A8 { _; W9 }/ f; ]6 Z the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
, g! O/ \1 ?3 f' c7 O5 V* T6 { year they send us a complete dick." |
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