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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to + u% L* u# W I0 C
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
' g7 D/ J; ^1 \$ Y/ ^6 e" k7 K, } books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
( j7 [4 L0 f1 F lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
2 W+ d% z. ]" i5 y5 Y 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 7 n! P- G* v C/ [
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
$ b. x# u* D6 W& U+ d bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
+ L% a" l, L3 d2 k( q9 j question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
+ c9 O' v$ O8 o, D5 f# Z) r% f "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 0 v) o5 u* g4 [. b
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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. d1 y. H. L( S& O6 b* v "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
$ N5 s w$ `1 @5 C' u8 u& H; n trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
! k0 s- B' u: M! I7 ^4 p! Y the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 0 B1 y) J# y- a, {& g
plaster." 4 l/ x/ A( W; N5 {# u: ~
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ! _& X" ]5 ?1 i1 k: \
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
; U1 s0 J) x I% d leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" c; [ C a3 z7 e/ [9 P
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
! l {" @+ v8 K& h' S7 u7 W the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
2 `) k+ P j! ~ year they send us a complete dick." |
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