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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
1 Z4 _# X9 J! @4 K9 d audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
( v6 M- M* b' h, z books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
3 _7 u ]. s7 X' J lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too * `3 v) E5 O- I3 t
little left to be of any use?" # h$ _8 h1 l5 r1 w8 t
( i+ f% c: D4 S "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 4 C# S. B: x# j
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 1 p( w' e( Z' \
bandages."
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3 G$ ?" T9 J+ h* b$ |! A "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 0 L+ N/ C& ^$ u3 ?. V% J+ M
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
6 y- f0 \# c% B3 A5 ~5 k "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 4 Q" h! ?: T, M% y
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 5 D' q8 m" I- _7 N; o: Q
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ; ?7 k7 M8 z9 E' Z; @
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
/ R' F4 G' \, x, o4 s/ [4 _$ z3 k plaster."
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' n4 m$ O3 ^) ` "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 4 ?/ M6 A& \- M3 k& ?1 `
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
0 E4 e2 z4 K* B leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
$ \( }/ p3 M6 n# g% _) y& M% V5 w9 ? "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all " c1 L' }$ e/ P3 T
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
i5 F i/ I% N! t6 ]* n year they send us a complete dick." |
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