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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to $ c( T4 N0 J; m; r
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
: U; ]" j9 A; h2 _ books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a8 V( S; _$ k9 M# Q. T
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 0 F, c5 _. k# i0 E6 L+ G! n
little left to be of any use?" # S% z0 J; @9 w3 S/ Z ^- f8 O+ g
* P0 O* l# m+ G "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
& E$ z; i6 D* f, q# [ the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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" q* G# d7 N8 @- C0 R "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual , O' t0 n4 x: D- g; f/ H
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. : a) w7 l4 Y+ T
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left . l9 ]6 R/ x3 ]0 J
over after setting a cast on a patient?" $ n8 x" Q; Y( D$ g
( X6 M" S3 O M# V "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
+ n1 o M t+ Q/ o4 ` o. u trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
& j( S5 H$ g. N% d7 n0 y7 n the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 2 m7 ~4 d# y2 g9 Y6 ~6 g& a
plaster."
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$ Y( U, M8 C" A9 ^9 x2 R "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
" Z0 r, D* [; h5 F" q' | the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the " T* D# e5 O2 e4 a6 G
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" $ F# I( V$ X0 {, {
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 3 O7 A0 n- {+ r6 H& L
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a . p% [1 G7 E2 L) u
year they send us a complete dick." |
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