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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to / A! N. j; ]. D/ V% ~
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
9 l6 Y. r# E7 P books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
, W* o# F2 x! u& b$ x/ }3 Q lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
+ o0 B% h) b6 T y, \% \5 v! F7 ]$ ^ little left to be of any use?" % `% F+ G% O( y/ R$ J
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 9 _2 J/ ?: b% N0 e
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 2 R2 A: d& W: o o s9 x- h
bandages."
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: R2 u% o* ^, ^* w "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
v; @) i6 p2 J$ a6 `, e' j. J question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
6 H) I! g5 V$ O' @+ Q "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
2 j9 q) |/ `3 a2 {7 Q( C over after setting a cast on a patient?" $ V- Z3 w* q+ G5 G- [, M
9 z; A0 m! a2 X/ O "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
( s! u6 t. [7 }' ^5 I3 p Y trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 8 b; I4 S: U* G0 B2 ^ Y
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
) c3 W% A! P4 p4 b, b! {! q plaster."
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: x( H% I1 ]2 @1 v; e( T "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster ; t, ^: _0 ]* @; F% c* J5 Z+ |9 ?
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ' x" B# o% i4 C( ^( s+ A2 ~( c8 _% j
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" " o: R! m) U" Z& {
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 7 [0 h* I( D& B) E
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a # ^4 v0 ~, z% y
year they send us a complete dick." |
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