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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to : b7 x) s9 Y" `# U" m/ m; a# T: {3 y
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
# Q; S7 V' k v6 ]) Q books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a! _9 A* d- ]1 F6 _: d, {) U
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
" Z! n. ^( ^& s" F' s little left to be of any use?" h2 K4 ]* r9 V2 ?
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
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bandages."
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# b$ q, v" y+ n' M% v4 B3 P "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual : ]0 F4 `2 F' r5 p1 P
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
9 ?7 f! K B' y) @3 o# C" t5 A% l0 ^ "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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( ]# s4 a/ o k, m2 x6 q% l "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 8 b+ t+ W; x2 u4 w$ ? Q
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' i* S# q- K6 Q/ ?6 q$ K- c the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of % F* w7 v+ ~% N
plaster." 6 Z: A9 T% a z6 Y t* E
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
- R% o. y E, [; o the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
6 _0 I+ R! K: R4 t; |1 t5 _1 S leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
7 n; X4 }' p/ U" E6 o "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ; L+ o' O3 h$ M+ W
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 3 `$ Y2 D7 z9 f* _1 S( |1 W
year they send us a complete dick." |
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