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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
( i7 o+ W" E, [7 w; j& E, q audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
9 [+ ?8 W3 t3 M+ U/ L books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a6 G5 e: F3 q8 u
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
, ?. h$ v3 V, C" J" p$ } little left to be of any use?"
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" L" z; \8 q. F/ ? "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
0 C7 d6 R% |4 c" b$ X/ y' ?! @4 T the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of , Y& {( L6 X# `$ j% R
bandages." " y! S$ F* j1 x
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
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"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left . l! W+ e; x# v! r( h& F0 M7 v
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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8 r6 n1 P1 N$ E8 y; Q7 j) ?3 f "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
/ h0 ?( \! ~& I trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' E4 l- _8 b$ {# n$ Z% u0 m the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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6 p. R! p" B" F; o! `3 U. b! E "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
5 z8 w r2 F4 R; G, `6 }5 f the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 7 h7 G$ q* P4 p" V4 x
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" J, G e# }5 g; f* @
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 7 B( M1 h6 v6 J: ?) G3 X6 d* |- P$ g
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
. C9 a5 n) c5 D- [% n/ Q6 z* H year they send us a complete dick." |
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