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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
( f* D9 i. Y9 ^" X lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
8 B% c, g- j# Z. s5 b, q- r 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 J' P" C+ I) t$ K$ c1 N1 W
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
3 v; t6 [# n3 s5 S& r, u question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. / M: u! c9 z, h! ~7 @- ?
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left $ n+ K9 z. b) R8 f
over after setting a cast on a patient?" ( }% S6 [! k, l: {" @2 f# Z; z' U
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ' l! k5 v; _& }/ I; I* M- I4 s E! v
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
7 k2 m+ y$ U: o the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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' R/ I+ R. X: S8 V: A0 w8 ~0 u "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster , `7 G# F' W' H Q7 H! f0 |
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
2 @8 w& U, v+ t leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
) X& ~0 n- k2 x2 m6 Z2 x" F "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all * \; H# r; r6 I# r2 H
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
+ \- \2 e4 o% k3 r year they send us a complete dick." |
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