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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
6 g% V. m+ {& N7 M# E9 W lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
9 \2 G4 J5 }3 M0 T, K% g little left to be of any use?"
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; E7 o$ s; E4 M, N N+ i- T "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 6 b* Q! Y3 v; A
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
2 }7 g& |& @$ m* Z2 u* {- o bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
( h0 s5 k. D: c5 U question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 2 P& d$ \/ `# E
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
4 n+ Q* v( D$ w* g+ H$ _# | over after setting a cast on a patient?" 9 e7 G! c5 m0 d* A4 `) O
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
0 B4 ]% I1 p2 z6 ?5 t, [ trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ' m$ Y( p8 q+ W+ v/ Z
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of s: n2 @& k+ K& P8 O, {
plaster."
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. s- D$ @; a8 {5 y "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
" n) s' ^4 {) m4 r; a9 { { the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
. h; y' @ u5 q/ I leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" * t. K, B/ }: I* d6 L& [
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 3 X+ k) B5 H2 @/ j3 }
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
8 L, a, l* p! @/ y6 ~# y year they send us a complete dick." |
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