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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
- _4 w+ w7 z5 q6 ?5 [ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 3 ]5 ]$ Q" r4 k" B$ v' ?0 o
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a; M" \" R& r/ x% U4 Q, ^7 ?& v
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too p1 k9 y' g$ m, `/ T! N* H* M; U- G o
little left to be of any use?"
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# l, }, r) d9 a5 ]) R "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 6 D# ]4 Z/ x6 K% W7 m/ D9 a
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ' p7 n! t: M4 \. p3 A. G
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ! J& z% ~% V, v
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
}: \7 I# p$ q V: i) x over after setting a cast on a patient?" . E; P h! x3 Z% ]! P% z
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to + I( ~) Z8 g- k% Z" \
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
; t% }% m3 m- n# R" z! X H6 F the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of $ d! S4 O! w% i' \
plaster." % F h) X7 j. [! V/ c
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
+ I( L, r3 x4 v* r1 T* O- g the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
9 H5 S3 }( b- X; s. C& { leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" % @7 B( N; u1 f6 \
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
, c* D2 r9 O4 [ the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 4 d8 n6 T- I9 @! A
year they send us a complete dick." |
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