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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to % _8 q& D1 L3 s/ Z; R/ U
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
e: y* A# P4 f7 ? books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a3 M7 x' L7 D7 o2 x, }6 @# C4 G- G, [- A
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
5 j2 |% O: r* \& s 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
/ {) G1 e6 U4 V, V2 p/ C, K: B the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of & e9 K5 o+ [* S0 h; O
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual * n3 l8 ^; Y0 u% J
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. # y$ G" B0 z: [' L% j
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
7 e$ O7 {/ t: a4 t/ x over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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0 b: \. V7 {$ ?( O% n$ g "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to # O! ~+ X0 L% o6 D/ [: x! `5 A
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ( g7 {1 _' W1 Z$ r" ]7 [8 \
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of . v7 r% \; U" A- E# ?
plaster." & `3 l0 M4 k' Z7 B
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 7 s! a/ ]3 q$ _6 L' _
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the / y% N4 `8 u( f! L! ^2 O9 {
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
+ V! K# c9 P$ m8 `/ r' r "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
2 U; K, A9 Q6 F |8 g: O the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
5 F. j; k' ^! ]3 U9 ^ e3 C3 M/ w& V year they send us a complete dick." |
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