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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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6 ^- x3 Z2 F# P8 M, ~8 M l9 y books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
- j% I( ?* O/ C" x. r lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ' D% u( v9 i0 T; g
little left to be of any use?" 1 J: `" q& a6 }
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 9 o) v( M) L4 E7 x# N
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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) r# [; P, K& R5 {4 i) G "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
. M2 Q6 \) n' {$ J question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. . j5 E- R) d! v9 x0 a
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
0 p' ~. x" B7 k. t" H* i9 T over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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3 z% k$ m- N7 g% @/ O "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to : m! v1 p3 |( F$ \# y) o( E- d+ O
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
8 m {( F( K1 [4 L' o: Y1 G, Z9 r the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ) i. q8 h+ d4 ?1 @" D7 M/ c- m
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ! B* m6 Q. T% r+ k, L
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
2 ~1 C7 q: H/ j4 b0 b "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
8 D$ E5 C* b# D2 n the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a & w& Y4 Q) k! z/ {. A9 U. b# d4 [3 u
year they send us a complete dick." |
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