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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
7 W% b" g7 \8 E3 _* L [2 o% o audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ! |, b$ D9 d; C* q w1 Z. M
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
v9 [/ W9 v, p lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
6 n* j# b. n9 ?+ O1 v Q5 f little left to be of any use?"
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8 R' H# e, w, j" T% Z- @* l5 m "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 5 [; N5 g( i' }0 ]0 ~% O1 n5 N
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ' V2 i1 D" ?9 Q. v
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
! g2 U3 }: y( c' p question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. & R& \; ^( u) ?5 E, Y( K T* O
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
( O6 R: W- h: v! L# } over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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6 y- ]! G/ z8 P6 t8 L f( v0 B "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
' _) o( v. ^3 v4 p9 K5 c; k1 ?! N trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
& e! V. [) Q+ h! P% q the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 8 C8 I! q* q, y+ w$ H
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 3 @& v! @" U- P' M+ U
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
* R( S! F T) q# d7 n leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" " k& e: }! @& B0 c# M) W5 k, m9 b
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 6 G# a( b6 A/ |1 v$ T
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ' K& b7 O( D( E/ j# S: w
year they send us a complete dick." |
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