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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
2 W- D7 a) Q- R audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
+ ~% f8 T3 _; ^) I/ X3 F books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
- a1 B) c% A- @1 T) _7 x5 { lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
# m! b2 E: ~- H) H/ W 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 $ ] a* V* Q& u4 b
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
' ^ p0 ~9 D# T1 x* i0 @3 h bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
+ O7 S W. `6 L+ r# T question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
6 Z& |* L. k) n, d- L) b# C$ w "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
$ \# a+ Q8 y) T) h* Q5 f' L over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to * _+ U, D1 P! V! {/ H) M
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
( G8 z" l" N+ D6 g* o% v" v) ] the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ' Y/ e5 F* a! Y7 e" _9 r, _% h
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster , Y5 G5 }) n# U0 ?6 T& S
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
: v9 X( ^. S5 C7 Z- J8 @ leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" " G# c: F: S! M. Y/ t K
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 1 L/ P* l/ t" R3 Z* `
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a # W. q: z& b* ~: ]' `
year they send us a complete dick." |
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