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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to . }! r4 E7 \. ?; O V- Q
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
$ Q* H2 U$ {. ~* @; ?# x! y( f books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a; v6 v% y; m3 a# I( L4 H
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 6 [5 s9 p4 [" I4 l6 P2 L
little left to be of any use?"
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1 E+ _8 y" r7 ]3 n @ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to " N6 o* r+ p" r3 |: O) Z8 \+ D
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
. W) a, ^( h+ M2 _7 g- T$ r bandages."
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5 @2 E# z, \8 @& n5 l; z "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ) u: U! @6 a/ v
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. / w2 X9 ?' M2 A& a$ \& ^ x
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
; l9 @' y+ r8 b5 j; w; U" ~. P! D) b over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
|: v- O5 e3 H0 K+ ~( N1 M# a' c g trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
7 y9 Y* ]* O3 y. S" U the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ( S( @' S0 D8 @& h# |
plaster."
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+ Z1 i+ m; M# j "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster : Z2 T7 V8 h2 H, @
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ) h9 Y8 C7 }3 D3 g
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
. {; z3 F, \& G) z* i% q! X* b5 T "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
' D" I9 C/ v$ p) _3 B the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a " U" F3 w" a$ ]. F2 k
year they send us a complete dick." |
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