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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 3 F7 L! K9 ]: o+ q3 l
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ! ^0 M. u- a# G! f& t: D4 u B/ X
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a- i! V( ]' G; R
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
* t. T* [4 ^0 C8 Q2 W3 P little left to be of any use?"
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4 P' | N, Y( @4 K "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 5 h6 L5 T7 a# s5 n; S0 w% m
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 2 t; X3 ~% W6 t. r9 o, G
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 1 q0 ~2 O2 `% U O1 N( u/ r
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
3 ]$ U/ j' }7 y! p; g/ Y "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 5 V8 _' i9 Z& H
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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K) f5 q8 n' l, y; f. J "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 8 X& S3 w Z% T! X
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to / c, ]6 G' n: n% m
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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. F! v; @9 L9 w "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ) U. {6 T( I4 v! m5 Z8 I( {
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
[; S) }6 t0 E! } leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" ; q7 t y3 ~8 e
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
, ?4 }! r( ^ }0 e! F) P6 k the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 0 a' K4 Y o; R( w
year they send us a complete dick." |
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