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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
+ Q6 q3 `- y; R. q7 X audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the + |# j" O! Y' X! n8 r* `5 v7 v2 l1 ~
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a' ^: ~# M7 B7 ]. e J9 w) o; H, f
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
4 n' w( p0 T$ j6 i3 [- k4 | 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
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bandages."
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3 {# ~+ A% Z9 j "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
: y- r F- n$ g( d) {% U1 D question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
' _5 O1 V- L: F G "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 " n( x& q5 {4 P3 f. j- S, L
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
T% U F. G, ?2 _9 L& t the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of - y1 O' _; \! V$ D- x
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster + S3 C. P o; G0 D( _
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
9 E. n( r( ?5 h' k$ p: s leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
X v7 }5 p c [7 ] "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ( \& u$ W! J1 J! U
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 2 P I. C; G p8 Y, l5 d- p
year they send us a complete dick." |
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