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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
; N# E* x2 V' m$ k# N audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
: [9 O& J* w% G" Y7 X books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
! J" ~/ w$ K! T0 _6 V lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
2 e& ^- _$ y. z7 n2 F- o* [ 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 % `9 I" `7 z9 ~3 w" E7 _; d
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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* y. y& l3 h# y: `* H W "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 5 h+ F0 _$ A0 t! {
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
* K3 e6 M$ z& M5 p. E/ h& H "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
% s1 z( }" @* [3 ? over after setting a cast on a patient?" . M9 M& l8 y3 v# |9 Z2 P
5 b9 B, K( z) Z4 d/ A* V0 x "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
# \. {5 O* p$ S9 Q, [3 _ trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ) r! S4 y. t! V7 m d4 g
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 5 k1 F- d( L& D" z# x
plaster." : E5 g/ W# s3 {# O1 U
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
' [; }( S9 q( B. s2 c the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the : f7 b$ G2 Z5 b, @% H- @
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" + x4 D7 A* l* m7 S2 z6 S/ e
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all + N( r* S$ x" a
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 8 Z: z8 D4 f. e1 X' R1 ]
year they send us a complete dick." |
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