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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
' V9 j7 l) v! y* r2 K4 M/ J# x; _ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
/ F2 i( G, F7 t" r6 |! `+ X books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
* ~+ X! O5 }3 J. r H lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too " ]9 p, S0 C" z( |( Y
little left to be of any use?" " F, D( H# I) j) L* c1 u/ i
( R: [. @( \1 R; m" ~ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
; q, `" V/ c, Z r the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
: T/ _7 b# {, S. E1 p; | bandages." / R, C) Q1 ?" X5 m
6 r$ Y9 e! {% p. o$ I "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
. b/ `4 P8 z5 E" f# @+ S! Z, d question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
7 Y# l1 b( f! ]0 [" I "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
8 m" J& s0 p% w1 S P2 L over after setting a cast on a patient?" * o! ~/ P8 I& f3 `1 r" r
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
, o1 h! t: K2 j0 k" ^2 l trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' ]) W; O, N( ]% \( n' g) a( U the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 4 z* D, P# ?. Q* ^4 P
plaster." 1 |( K' h( H( M
6 {% q: a/ ?, F# _# | "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
( Q" N. _6 R; k+ o: t+ b/ D! h; d the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
' B" D! x; J6 Z9 c. u" [ leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
5 a# ~! q6 L* K, k "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
Q; M/ e M3 J! t' N. P F the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
; n/ O, z2 w2 a9 a, W% a year they send us a complete dick." |
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