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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
) q2 \' i- w1 T* r audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
, ]+ \# p( B+ _2 w% d5 @ G3 H books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
! s: p! D; z5 H7 E. v lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
, A' v9 ?" k: y( n/ W7 o2 o little left to be of any use?"
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+ [) M+ t9 |% s "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
- P& U7 ]: m6 A# w2 F, F9 i* _4 A 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
; O( ], f, X) M9 C% H# o, a! J question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. - C8 [6 V0 s4 T$ r s
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
: C( H$ S: B8 U0 I6 v over after setting a cast on a patient?" ; p6 {2 }: E+ s" e
4 F9 e' N$ S: P ^# R. G "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ' m$ U: P" T# o
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to . M$ s6 s+ j% T/ a" h3 }
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
3 M7 }7 n7 l+ C the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
" f1 f* z/ U, v7 {; c& F4 a leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
e! `; B( }9 O: D "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
- H5 U2 i; O& n6 m5 [6 {0 j9 m x4 C the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a ' S( c; ]5 u! u8 r
year they send us a complete dick." |
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