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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
2 a+ ]2 E/ T" X: [6 }1 ] audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
" n% \2 k7 b+ d7 |" X: K books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a. h/ r, Y( `! j9 D3 h& ]/ O
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
' _& G2 h6 d3 I+ j7 V0 o6 A: i little left to be of any use?" 0 [) I) f+ t! B) ?9 Y, @
; `. L) n9 f1 I8 m0 E "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 4 O& ?' w, {( [. M: R
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of " q! B3 i1 F2 ~
bandages." ' a6 `" N* _* J0 x0 _1 q
6 K9 H+ S" I+ v3 R "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 7 v1 T1 b0 S- W0 ~
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
H( Q6 P9 F% z( O' v "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ) \2 P0 R4 A8 e
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
p7 o* n. b/ M8 ^, |. @ trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
% D4 G3 a: x+ a the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of / J3 {; m$ J* ^; H3 I5 ]) c
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
( _' L; w6 N: _0 s/ f W0 x the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
1 @8 w7 A! ]# M7 l0 N( p+ I leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
" ]/ I; s' V3 O# I$ C! ?8 s "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
+ N$ G+ x" B3 v' ]% n( m1 ? the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
$ B% x C; y0 N* c, @1 A year they send us a complete dick." |
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