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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to $ V% L: D& v+ C N
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the * |3 F$ |- J! R% ]% t
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
. g/ |4 ^7 Y8 U' q% P8 A* s- ] lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
4 ?; H5 t/ r* O$ C/ W8 R: d little left to be of any use?"
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! k1 C( n. Y$ I, v1 l& X9 [, A, d2 z "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 8 |3 v$ \' C u1 K
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 0 R" K; l1 O# z' _4 ?5 R* f5 ^
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
* Y6 U% T% Z' c question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
: v) w8 p8 y! y; d2 ^# }1 [2 g "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
4 E: W3 A0 L5 T4 ~3 ^/ W over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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: U# T* `- X& L9 N "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to / H) I2 h( e7 @8 n* U
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 1 j) X6 D- j$ q
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
4 ]1 Y. v4 s. _, k plaster."
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# R; e9 {3 c. F; f: v* x! k8 R "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
; ]7 m; q w6 z the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ' ^& f* L8 C# `. P/ E
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
: B5 k$ B5 B0 G8 _ "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
& G; M' G( }" [( |9 D! y$ U9 c) V the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
) x: v/ o! m/ x$ p year they send us a complete dick." |
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