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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ) |' ^6 u4 t6 c
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
7 _* Z# R: _# Y; v! {0 a books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a, I6 B* M; k$ t$ @) u; y
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
( J8 W3 \6 V+ c. m* ? Z little left to be of any use?" 1 C+ ^1 N, ?4 u; u2 \2 Y
) ?7 x: u1 d8 D+ I" j% O q "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to " [' H/ @ X! t8 q+ }0 h
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
8 ]% K$ M5 K, G1 l2 j# U bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
' m- u/ o1 c9 k1 A- u3 n question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
# r- H9 o% V: f7 E' R "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
k1 A m6 H& V3 T) c. }, @ over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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X. x$ K8 T8 @ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
7 c: N' V% M& T, }' I, u/ `) c trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
! ]9 @' H* S8 L1 z: S the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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" x; C) i/ n4 h, b) C: u "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 8 c2 B, ?( ~3 _, @& u
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
6 t1 C& R* r$ x7 z! o leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
: M h% h) k7 R, y# y7 U5 a4 c: o$ ?7 N2 h "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
) H1 d8 p6 p) u6 S the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
( R" e6 U2 Q! u4 h year they send us a complete dick." |
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