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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
, f6 D7 B/ N! W5 }7 f$ _ audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the / s2 l4 E: v- W3 j5 c' d) d+ n9 t+ j
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
2 |. {( u. |$ Q! j: B b! r& d lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 9 d6 S, a' b2 C+ W1 o8 ^* o" J
little left to be of any use?" ( Q( T, ?3 ^# e- ]( l
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
' x+ ]1 K& y$ E4 q the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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5 ?0 O5 e( \. V, z) t. k, n! r c( Y "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
: q. k4 _: s, B% e; p; G3 N1 S question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. & P7 W5 x+ Y8 ]% }3 }5 q
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left - t5 C: f0 l- K5 v2 m. v/ t
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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9 c7 v0 B/ }7 S# {& v' I4 O5 T) f "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ( C& t7 F: N+ b1 b v1 R3 z
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ; @& w) d3 R& p2 x( Y( G0 l
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
, U" c& X: \8 P3 u/ _6 e the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ( Q$ l2 t* P+ [7 D$ D
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
) r8 ?) K% U1 ?8 z; i$ \6 D& l( i' \7 K "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 9 d# y7 B% |# S" ~. @
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
) \7 O8 o, B: F( o9 q year they send us a complete dick." |
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