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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
, z: r/ p2 S5 {: }- o+ a3 p audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
; r1 w4 W* J; c2 m& ^ books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a! u# X' b( h A
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too - L2 Y( E$ `) Z4 `1 b' I, E
little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to e; A0 f. n5 g D
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
+ e7 \# f" S1 e) f* k0 {$ I; x bandages."
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) ]8 B/ @. m( ~3 V& j# h "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
o+ `3 m; e, n" F question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. + l) O4 i2 d+ s* _- ^$ \
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
- O0 ^9 q! m0 H) E i over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to % G2 V3 |* P: a( s% X- ^- j
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
/ D4 J& E. [) k* Y- [7 V the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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+ Q# G e, ?( n- \) L "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
8 T) R& J% A/ W( O the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
1 |: R! ?$ E" \ leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
% n! p! \8 B2 R8 o) b4 ]- _& ^ "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
- I! c# T7 w: _; o the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ! [% ?: s5 ^4 v
year they send us a complete dick." |
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