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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to , U e) ^! e6 m* _
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
+ d S: W9 u* ^0 B, Y books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a8 z! g# z# s4 e" ?& j
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
$ W9 G& v% A* ^7 b. K 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
! S" m, D6 O' Z. N6 p the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of , E* O4 Q" x9 ?
bandages."
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( S4 _( X, M* Q; |& w7 Z "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 7 J" L! ~$ |2 B! w/ F
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 6 _5 V+ G) H' S5 e" Y! p
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ; i8 p9 B0 ^7 v( v$ U
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
9 A: J6 ]$ M/ q1 V: Q5 y trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
; X% d4 q4 P, B5 p" s8 x the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 1 q0 A4 V$ S5 ~' l- G3 t
plaster." " I$ t0 r2 `2 M% Z1 P
' W+ ]- n* n, h) ?0 z "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
. L e& o1 o% i6 U# s the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the + J6 |4 n6 U) N) K9 i
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" , m1 n% _+ `+ {! q, @
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ' |$ r2 S; o$ X0 b! m: E
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
1 `$ m" ] X0 e8 w7 |! V2 I year they send us a complete dick." |
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