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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to / j. b4 ~+ W* |3 ?/ ?$ n
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
+ r0 g5 a5 j& _' x! e# C+ }2 q books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
* E/ B% }8 q4 Q* j3 n8 Q lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
# S, T. v& \) u7 h8 S" y little left to be of any use?" - @" x3 k) L* B* _1 L
3 }0 M* F% G* |" R "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
3 u: r2 u8 Z1 h+ R& z0 O 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 7 f5 F0 H1 |- n- s; z1 K* F
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. $ R1 \+ Q0 ?. A
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to $ G6 j% I8 ~" J6 Y$ @/ p
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ! w- e) w, r( a, `+ a0 k- k x/ g2 N
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ' Y3 }2 s. X7 t3 o
plaster." 3 X7 j0 M- L+ [) Z7 a, _1 x2 |
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster # z/ f! G8 _" I6 O
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 8 D3 X4 Z9 A4 ?8 c$ c( z
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
7 @+ T, T! A R& y: B "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
% F% O. b4 z- A" ~/ s; l( X: \ the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a : R5 e+ U7 q, F# S7 B
year they send us a complete dick." |
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