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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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( M- P0 `& l) ~2 S books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
4 K4 ]- R% D& ]% K3 R( n lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 0 A* o- D0 T. y7 M1 _" u; r# s
little left to be of any use?"
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& n: v0 L9 z% s* E3 [1 X2 G "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
" [" v* o3 n) D& f" A7 I9 g% g/ N the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
& U4 @+ _3 x- z bandages."
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% x Q. N7 Q3 v# ?/ y h4 s "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
; ?& s- A5 V# \3 Q' C' T5 K, s# [& V2 N question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
. l, t$ X( c b. H+ N6 X$ U "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
: f+ k2 H) P! \5 \" K6 Q over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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7 H( B: s; X8 F' P, k) i "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
) ?- _" ~: m3 j trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to + R( \$ S: m. Z/ C1 z7 P
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 4 `; i' N+ z1 r9 D% `
plaster."
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' n8 F0 Y3 Z/ q( ?/ h "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 4 O/ h/ N; E4 D8 Y! g" n% b
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
o4 X$ _0 _5 h7 }! l9 P$ w leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
& W7 R) \5 E; G9 n "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 1 b6 i% l6 V+ @' O
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a + m& i" T1 a! U
year they send us a complete dick." |
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