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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
X: E1 h. _( ]6 F4 F* m6 B. r& n audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 8 \' d& N2 K+ d8 r# i
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a+ X' V' ^ r9 I4 c
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 5 E/ r9 Y+ Q# S
little left to be of any use?" ! ^" C" U4 H1 G( Q+ {7 o6 g3 ^
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ' s0 k9 L$ q' S: h& m# g, q
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of % v9 z% Z9 {, S, L
bandages." . _+ f" y: G. A2 T) Q
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
& {! q- S, c; O question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 5 h9 ]0 e d. j$ z ~) {
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
2 ~/ x; Y$ k! A) p6 E over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
) d! U) K1 u# a& o trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to , _. @4 k1 V* y7 l$ U O
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of % q; {) g* X+ n' k$ T9 k
plaster." ' [( g$ [: N/ J4 g5 D( V: n1 v
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster / Z2 p8 p9 F7 ^8 q/ P* `
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
( y1 t" I, ~6 j D+ ]7 y: P leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
# d' N" P' p, m) ~" k0 } "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
2 Z! M- z% m9 w the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a : M! H/ V' a7 w/ d8 s' k* Y
year they send us a complete dick." |
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