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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
8 i1 g4 u- N5 c7 |: _# | audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
, S8 l4 n% t `1 j N. n, x6 u/ k books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a% V6 C1 S1 k7 ?9 _# X8 b
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too $ r. u8 N" t( q# D" Q
little left to be of any use?" # @+ ^! o. _' g+ R
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
" \0 Z. }/ t: w# b. P. R5 d the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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2 h. w4 F y* I9 B/ x "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual $ h% C6 d& X0 P2 n
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
( s% O% B. X: T/ w8 x% h- o% j) B "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 6 f1 N7 V! y$ l% S
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
, l- S5 D. s; d$ ]) D the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
8 p2 {) \ B1 m$ L plaster." . U/ C( ?! M! y% H9 v" V; h
9 f7 e1 @! F4 _" m) R; c% u& ] "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
- {$ O2 n) N+ ]8 k, g; q; V! k( A the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
' s% q6 `. c+ c A; Z" f+ c' X leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
7 H; F8 t5 Y( l; d4 y- u "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all $ p1 O9 h v! h: `, B Z
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 7 Q/ f2 l" \" t+ }% |
year they send us a complete dick." |
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