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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to % r3 e6 P- H6 B) g9 y# s) `' X+ Y
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the % `) r* F6 f/ C: q' z) P
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a0 n* C. i' a: r2 ~) P0 ?
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
6 O( f# e. ]: U' E" P: W0 g( 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
$ T8 A1 [4 ~: T2 E( Y 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 + U& f8 L; H2 ~( M; T+ {3 I
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 7 u, V' D. U1 s [9 _3 M0 z
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left % V0 o% @3 {1 `8 S4 X
over after setting a cast on a patient?" + X" n* Z* F+ \. Z4 b2 h
6 I L, Z" Y( R) B ^, E$ s8 A! k' T& ]; V "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 5 j8 {) R$ ]/ P8 ]
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to " f9 _. {+ m. `2 x2 ~- _% _
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ( W, ~3 L! b! `2 G9 t- @
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
$ \+ a, X$ b, z# W% f0 ]. k5 f) ^ leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
0 L8 n' e0 u* P! J, f7 A$ N "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 1 Q" x2 A7 M$ E# n. C H3 @
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
% X% R/ v" u. d/ w year they send us a complete dick." |
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