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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to N* i' a$ }7 C1 ~* P Q
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 1 j \0 Y" R% p8 I& W2 b7 R& Z8 l
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
f; |; F9 b i% G lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too + i8 L0 f L; w* ?0 S; P. T6 P
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
$ ]9 S& C7 l; j+ X( ]. h the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 7 k/ M7 b5 D$ ^) [" M$ d) }
bandages." / a1 k# Q% l6 P, _& C
1 b4 J! a5 F1 I$ Q9 K# A5 L; `3 s- U "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual t. u0 x$ L; K' h1 u( r" O$ `3 ^' @+ p
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
2 k- z; L& d2 Z w$ m1 G, | "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
2 _8 p0 t" U t* y2 U3 s3 t over after setting a cast on a patient?" 0 M6 H4 x& {' e2 g' V
) D8 D9 r+ K5 O2 b% g. e4 z "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 3 c# z8 x, T8 h; p; C7 ?+ b! ~
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
6 V. N3 L( P6 |+ a( W the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
6 W4 x9 e' ~& k2 y3 D* N# ?" E- x plaster."
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( K+ H' d8 Y( T; l6 @ "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster - N& l) Y6 ?& w# ]* u4 I9 B
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 2 \ x: W& |, n+ }; s
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
8 J& q# p4 h/ \ "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 2 k7 ~( a5 Y) X
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 4 k @6 `$ ]' t, V0 K
year they send us a complete dick." |
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