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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
1 c0 M8 V! @9 R ~ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the . `4 ?0 c+ S& d7 E3 K/ [6 e
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
2 w6 g$ A( E( E5 D3 D$ i6 [. @ lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too " ^! c# I% h; o
little left to be of any use?" % b5 Q, M; Q7 h3 E. _" r
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to : } x% E) ]' n' u1 x
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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' C8 F5 o* f9 {% u, a% G% f "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
5 H S# Y8 K9 S! p question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
; Z* F2 f- o$ K6 j7 K4 x% b+ y "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
/ s* w4 A$ K* G. i( j, B5 P9 y over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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q+ _) ]. S: s p) G8 \/ `0 Y5 W "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 6 q# \+ P( c9 [5 @
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to # r* ~( V) \8 B2 v5 |' w$ |3 _8 w
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of % C0 m1 \1 t$ |' Q7 j
plaster." 7 a* [/ y& n! |5 ~, j/ V
, R1 |/ n& l) V "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
" d6 g) L: ~8 m$ Y the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
$ r) e0 w& T6 I2 x( Q& D leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" T4 V- ^4 T4 s1 A5 L
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
! W7 f$ m$ _" j3 M/ |7 j7 f) W3 [ the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
% T5 T* g$ { ~3 T7 d r5 w. g year they send us a complete dick." |
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