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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
" x) V- S5 H3 e4 X. B) j audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
6 f4 Y4 W" P \8 _4 x9 R books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
+ `1 e( x' S- `# M lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
U5 Z# K7 i+ U 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
% T7 Z7 r" O( b" I) z 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
: x7 f$ A8 Z. M/ S# @5 C* q1 P. k$ i9 A) I question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 0 Z8 n) |7 d$ r J+ h
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left # ~+ n2 W0 j3 a$ `$ k% C
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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+ y" P$ [ M2 r "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
$ ^ {. x3 z/ v! K; H2 ` trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to / \$ ?6 A/ s9 R& g
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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0 A4 A) U# o( ]& b6 B8 X "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
- x, w# U9 u1 Q8 P the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
2 B4 z' k1 T. @( c) n$ M leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
; W+ E+ V2 g }. s4 Z0 \ "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 7 m5 [" \& L1 k; ?. I7 x! C, k
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
- e+ R) H& G; }: g# P }' n' F year they send us a complete dick." |
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