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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
% V" y s6 W/ F( X$ g+ z audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
% X$ C5 {. E, s ^9 M7 j7 A, Y! g books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
, O- d* U! Q; U lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
( K2 a: h7 |6 `; D3 | little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to + v: ~8 h" M* X# Q
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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: d& y/ R+ {/ {7 _ "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual * G1 C' E" Q9 U; q( X; c( N3 J
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
- N! W M8 @) F& l0 X "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left % j7 k7 q$ E, o1 k
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 2 D3 n" n! r, `9 h% U+ ~
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
( R! g7 a* E9 w) k trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to - P2 k0 S: G) P0 {1 [& b0 w
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of & A z! e, [& {; K5 U
plaster."
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; O" [" g: [0 X+ P1 S) p "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
$ x( o3 K/ O% T- G* n the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the $ c( X& }& q( P f* v# D
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" . L" T: ?- a2 z) s* Z
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 9 b" E' K, V# {8 V$ c
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
! _* M: P3 x3 G# y year they send us a complete dick." |
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