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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ' k& D+ X7 q4 S7 Y' L
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the " k5 D6 X2 H; x/ Z; ?; P# ]/ V) P' x
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
8 Y& i6 t- p/ Y% R lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too / Y( r( A S( W+ q
little left to be of any use?"
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$ f A' ?- G; b1 O7 z* i "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
0 [0 S% E0 H; y2 e the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 2 H. g# @6 J9 A5 K/ P
bandages."
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) v6 {2 Y* x" M( a+ b+ l "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 5 L2 z1 X# P0 T, v. u
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
. M1 f4 C# D4 X& J# A "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
0 Y5 |8 o, T; L% n. s over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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% a$ T: W! C% `9 W4 r; g "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
* I \; `! o5 o- a, [: k& Y4 N trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' u; x$ a. ]& {5 ]; x# ~( @ the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of + C. F8 ]$ w% M7 X
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
f4 e0 [) V' |; C L2 @5 {1 Q the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
0 G( e: j0 ?- e leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
; E; x0 o$ `/ x) v7 S8 ~ "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all , o+ q) i$ O% u) z
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a . m# Q, Y; c Q6 u/ I2 {' k
year they send us a complete dick." |
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