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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
! D% `, P2 e# Z9 r* L. }2 F/ A audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 5 H0 z; k: e, M: {. k9 P T9 y# g
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a0 G: `' E1 T- B
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
$ ~: z% \; h9 N/ Q% r/ _9 @% R9 D4 ? little left to be of any use?"
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! h1 ? r/ C; D* u9 x' o "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual , G4 j8 H/ J; }/ H4 h
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
. @& A8 t3 c) {% d1 S7 z M "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
7 V% o2 U6 W9 h8 ?! q$ ^ over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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" X. V5 |# F5 p1 t "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
+ Z1 n' ?/ A% X5 j, V' r/ P trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
* e- K% w9 j; D$ L1 i3 y the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 7 T2 e5 {% X1 G) p% W0 C v
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster # ]* m; g, n1 p7 D% \3 K0 M
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
& c; u+ T0 v, ]% A1 U leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 4 C4 [( f( A* ~/ Z" d! F! _
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 2 h) v) Q& E0 C0 K
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ) m1 F8 A2 |) M+ ?
year they send us a complete dick." |
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