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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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! W% c D+ G7 H books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
7 k% @! U* [' P' L; n lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
" C9 U7 d7 c$ a, M& o1 j little left to be of any use?"
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# f# C# [) U& E; L$ K3 d, ] "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to / }- Q# E7 c0 r8 `# M
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
. q$ ?- d3 P* |4 K* K bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
5 p# T+ F4 j; [2 z$ E3 M% A; P question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ! e5 w0 w' J/ [. {$ P
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 0 M' U* Q) U1 c3 }% y, E# C0 n
over after setting a cast on a patient?" * Z* c$ {4 _% y( S
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ; \. L: U9 e" s+ }
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to # {, s6 l h" j( l5 z, w
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of $ j; A8 B3 J Z. B* e
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ) |4 H1 A! x1 I, u/ E& j( i; K5 j
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
: ^9 q" ]. {7 S8 @6 H leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" * l# i" w8 R( N8 U
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
$ v* \' f& V0 r the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a % ]7 e9 F! y7 S
year they send us a complete dick." |
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