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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
4 @7 ]( f5 Z3 u audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
$ b% P0 w6 e& r; l! l books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a z& s. K( X E" O5 H& B1 s
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
8 j5 \* K W" k* z/ e9 I, s, S little left to be of any use?"
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# u9 y" P: J$ o2 [( Q8 y "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to : \+ l7 V l1 |7 X% U
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of C7 H" b/ a5 l# j& P S9 S4 H2 u
bandages." 5 U/ ~4 T6 N- R {2 M- Q
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual + i2 P4 e5 T, [1 @
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. Z9 k7 x B% H$ ~/ r
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left Y- p5 m7 ?$ N1 D0 o
over after setting a cast on a patient?" / j& X1 l4 G; Q/ ?9 A
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ) X5 O* Z# S! S4 I0 q' w
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
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# X% ^( C7 G) J$ T c$ Q W "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
; P6 M/ |% _" e1 S the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
" A% ]- Q2 A8 E leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" + @* Y7 C/ t; a0 f/ ~. o! J
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all , w( d( g" Q# x; d* a7 E
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 8 s! w# Z( ]$ ?! }. c
year they send us a complete dick." |
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