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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ; v* g0 Z h+ {6 N" a g
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
4 P& D* ^# ~* u( x" S& B0 ` books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a4 l+ ?& w* }) H& Q! m6 E. C2 G: ]$ {
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to , J1 Y6 ?2 O! [5 k6 U+ V" D
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 1 o, b# v0 r9 @9 f) e3 \
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
0 e6 u3 G- x% [) I7 J "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
3 M4 t- f; V1 v0 @4 p/ ? trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
, |+ _# `' m0 T+ L, ] the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of - N/ J o% e5 E2 T; m$ {; J( K( ^
plaster." / d; [5 v c+ O6 r* y6 J
" M6 v9 E7 ^. V% Z$ j1 Y5 i "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
1 Q7 A1 f/ `# R! C, Y the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
8 O7 w* O3 O* B7 k: f leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
# a$ A6 P) P, t) o( Y4 F "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ) z& C) J$ M, {3 f. N3 x
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
# _ ~: X1 j: ]( w year they send us a complete dick." |
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