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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 3 k2 i# L# ~5 G
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
7 g. \2 f& O7 e/ c3 b books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a7 |: R0 I8 D, o f! j
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
, y( K: n/ e, f' r8 Q( x7 v1 @ little left to be of any use?"
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7 m% C6 `+ N9 r, {4 M "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
/ h" g+ y! k' C) v; a& |2 d6 [ the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of # Y; D( `- s, B8 k/ i; v
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ; Z! F* c Z8 ?7 e4 ~/ e
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
$ m6 k6 }" W9 q8 K "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
( v: C# W6 Y$ ?, M. f over after setting a cast on a patient?" ' k, w5 W$ J* i* D
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
+ V5 S: j8 J" ?9 k trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to : w+ ~, P, e- \8 _5 S
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of & Q" w! ~; [! }+ p
plaster."
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. z9 S1 p6 I- c. }; Z+ j$ _% j2 m. O% r "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ) l, M9 |1 ]( E, X- Y1 x
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the : M. `6 @9 p5 E, R# K
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" ; |: F' L3 w% O, k# a) _% n; y
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
/ ]1 \+ j* Z' n! ]: c9 J/ D the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a # _+ a* h) M7 S
year they send us a complete dick." |
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