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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
, q- Y. d) X# V- D6 ?. g9 ~ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
2 B1 R: u6 J5 E. Z. R books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
1 z' x/ Y6 s- @' z% Z { lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ( _' Q! i" Q4 e
little left to be of any use?"
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9 K- {3 f; z8 ^# d) G "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
- Q% v0 b8 t$ w6 s7 a, U the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ( I3 v9 N2 A! ^. R: x+ r0 b& s0 \
bandages."
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d! O6 v, z8 y% h8 h7 t "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 8 |7 H3 C# h7 G4 K
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
2 R: f; k" @2 X' [( A @9 K8 A3 \ "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
. N5 p) `9 i4 \; p% Q* t* U! i: | over after setting a cast on a patient?" 7 U- a" g0 a* ]2 {1 e. R) |
/ |, O+ M& d0 \0 x9 ] "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
5 x" O3 W/ m! m trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 0 y4 a$ x% c, d9 s/ }7 {
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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& a( _( a1 g3 V+ p "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ( E0 F9 m# g$ g
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
# @) s: \2 j% c# `5 m8 [" n! c. g leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
9 o6 D- p( l( b5 w9 e- T5 F. o8 Y "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
5 Y8 G$ E6 f4 X- q+ G# o the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
# d. h x/ R9 y( f1 I2 @ year they send us a complete dick." |
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