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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 4 X( a5 f7 z1 `' X, Q
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
: B7 S5 |; j6 g/ e; ^, O4 G books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a" u: }' k: f' i8 w5 K( C# |3 G7 I
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too + ~9 _$ X# {$ K; X. u: E1 \1 }* d
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 k. W/ n; q( b# K( g 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
$ D5 g7 d1 w- e, c$ H3 \, Q question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
5 Q) ?. L& ^' b3 z* I2 e: | "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to : A, U) S1 L( s) w0 R/ F
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to - ] Y0 F- i0 v3 \" F& X& p
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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) ]' J4 i! B9 L "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
s& w, u4 y" F8 D# d the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the , C9 H: T( p+ \% K- ]* f
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" $ g9 C6 O) I5 s0 o4 a
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
" s; k7 b; i" S, m the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 1 x+ D. B# V- X6 X- ^
year they send us a complete dick." |
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