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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
7 F d4 q. g/ c. P4 s6 D0 R audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
/ X3 N1 l7 p- t) v' G' Y8 D books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a1 r C4 p% e7 \+ P
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ) \ S% s1 p- |' G6 H4 P
little left to be of any use?" / C4 _5 x0 k& {- t, n P
2 B2 d& C2 p, h4 O; a: x( E "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
3 I# ~2 y* c o7 R" L the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
: J. `& g3 `( U* i4 |6 W2 c bandages."
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( ~% p' _3 U, ]2 R: W6 | "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
6 s, m1 `5 c5 k, ^; D question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ; q0 W: b: F h& j
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ' d% L, w, K+ {6 O0 C4 @/ ^ a+ c
over after setting a cast on a patient?" ) f0 p. U* p6 B1 `3 O
F: W* H. S/ q4 K "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 0 P( Z+ z+ I4 `1 w; q2 L
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' w6 h8 `/ @. D7 H, h the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
& Y' t& M- B$ w1 l2 x/ Q plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster # d# V" k0 c4 q5 g
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
) {- ~/ p4 L" ^, P$ X+ r& K leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 0 E- a% \. C" x: x& c
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 4 A! g% p. V% ~9 \7 P3 E. r
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 7 h" k( n1 D6 a
year they send us a complete dick." |
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