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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to & H0 L. C; }. n* R8 l
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
R, M& V4 P% m, E6 o books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a H6 t4 R; b4 J% u: } R% o- u
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too / Z* F( O% T% ^) d( N3 u2 ~' E
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 : Q) `2 ]9 g/ Z: f2 }# m! q' d
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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/ n3 ~* `8 D+ I. g3 d8 g2 }; e "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 6 T# S- r# Z$ U, n4 V# o
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 7 k6 m0 @" i* m6 N
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ; _ k% l6 @0 x& g3 n _0 t. ]
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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; b/ ?7 q# C* Z4 I/ n' n "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
* L- n! \' R2 d( l! W! q U trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
. A Q: P% H8 W: Z9 y, F, e the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of , `! F# C7 U* H) [4 C
plaster."
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' N+ ]" w9 n4 v7 C5 I "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
$ q# B `3 v" P the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ! F# {. h! y8 b
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
3 w% s! d& X0 z1 Z "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
9 O, x. J) L7 U' n) ]* b the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
- k4 x t8 [) m year they send us a complete dick." |
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