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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to # j' h& P8 e* @, ^" _. d
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* b( S+ y3 \/ r3 Z6 s books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
! Q3 w7 r) O6 z) ?$ c% k& e lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too * p, ]. o1 p0 I! k- 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 1 o5 V$ [5 ^2 f7 H2 [3 G& ^; G6 o
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of $ p- C, \+ }$ q7 @) f
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ' |2 X8 H# b( x8 L# c
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
3 |% ^4 \' d: w2 ^# Q( F "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left + W, G: Z2 u. z! a$ m% K
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 3 `9 m5 k( e7 B- P5 r6 s: i0 \ j
+ }5 A! }" Z# n; T "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
/ |1 [4 p3 B7 N$ ?* X. H2 G trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
1 A7 {$ r2 q: H9 n2 n9 t the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ' Z$ f0 Z7 _/ \' v- I
plaster."
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" G9 ?2 T2 R! j$ W5 ], z "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
0 F" x; M8 A E the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
; {9 z3 @( d: ]5 m leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
4 r3 l2 X, w& n3 c; p "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
7 O" s% z1 x# x" |9 S6 p the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
! X: r r' J0 g9 H% S year they send us a complete dick." |
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