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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
W$ o4 F7 g2 S& B audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
6 {9 z4 k( h# j5 q books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
) Y7 m; Z5 }7 ?( U0 |9 c+ G lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
! Z' d$ A- S, M1 u2 q- 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 ! F2 X) q9 W& A1 ~: @/ L
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ) B4 V. D% `% ^ p' I0 r
bandages."
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' W2 w- t [# R7 q8 V' P5 X8 |4 S "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual % G/ z- ~7 X) F4 e8 n0 l3 w% e3 z
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. + S$ f5 q7 G8 B4 q
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
" \ z" N3 l; y' c" V% O over after setting a cast on a patient?" 0 I# o& v7 a, P* _* A
, ?/ Q5 d% p5 I- }& \7 }# O! z "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
7 [' ^0 d! a" J/ k; L( r trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
8 o/ p/ f0 S* r( [3 n4 R the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of / D( m. `0 ?0 m5 q' I
plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 8 X5 T' o- ~( M" z) J% t( [
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ) S: o) M+ T' o9 S0 q( s+ P& i1 Y
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
3 R5 c ]* w% {) [! m a "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
; ?2 V: O- i3 c- r- m5 \9 b; j/ p the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a : E0 `# Y9 \& {, I* q2 H
year they send us a complete dick." |
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