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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to / C- L. d% s/ R5 M7 h! {- k
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the - [6 c5 }3 P* j- T% [
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a% ^4 W! _6 o. A2 T, _+ I
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 0 [1 A! F r6 R! u' a
little left to be of any use?"
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* }3 @+ q) E+ e L. T1 t "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
' q& D- p$ n) W: N- n: } the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ) @ Q5 B) N" x/ s; ^. H0 y
bandages." ) |* a# L5 {7 i- C9 c. D
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual : L% R& @) J t! q
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
: T6 S+ b! b- J- _3 C2 v "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left h) k/ C7 i8 o# h
over after setting a cast on a patient?" . F8 e+ m4 F! P; Y0 h
5 R! B( W) M0 K" k6 n "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 4 n% T/ \$ I$ C/ b7 {
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to % ]- a7 D! { ?7 {3 d
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 F4 |# }3 o8 Y the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 8 c8 U" t1 |: e
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" # c; }. J" b: J2 l0 ?/ L' [
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 5 V! N- k5 \+ j/ \
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a " A0 l8 X; L& m9 o
year they send us a complete dick." |
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