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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a# ]7 s3 V0 ~2 e! B: p
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 9 h6 c2 `5 Y4 _5 g, b' x2 X) L
little left to be of any use?" # T$ ~" {9 A( E
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ; Y- t1 H$ o& `3 m
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual , v1 c2 V# R+ t7 j# |8 N
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
4 Q3 h. z. Q7 `9 M3 ]1 T( @( K8 O' I( ]+ M "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
! Z! D3 f' {( t2 p8 }, x8 G8 K9 c over after setting a cast on a patient?" 7 f" \. c8 k( {/ K* }# l
6 W5 t0 e7 T$ v "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
$ Q4 I; l( j. c8 A trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
3 ]! ~# O) r& Z% l4 Y9 x the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ; w9 i) j- P( q+ F2 m6 [# G3 |
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
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leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
/ x6 c' ?0 J5 C' P j: W, x- g, x "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
5 `1 A' P" Z+ i8 E- b9 Y the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
: t2 R; Q( M* `" c( G5 l year they send us a complete dick." |
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