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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to B5 V, p6 @* C9 f
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* y" y. R0 Q% h! ? books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a9 r5 W* c8 {$ P0 n
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
2 G1 c+ |( I+ r* e 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 4 C" R! E- }' W0 z! j* q6 S
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ' `' r; v8 B' f) ^% L5 x5 U
bandages."
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- ?* c& a7 A/ ?9 S3 m "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
( n3 x3 u- M+ L( l0 U question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
' n' z5 m# g1 ]" | "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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p1 ^, k7 d& z { "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ! q, N9 j1 O# z* J6 X' v* Y
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to # S( D% d) N! \: X$ N3 b3 I2 o8 c
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of * c2 \+ h" e( p: b4 `
plaster." ; B& |# N2 {# j
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster # i4 y7 u7 @8 I) P
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
, _" r8 K# u1 a8 L leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
) Z- Z$ h$ L* y6 Z" L/ P4 y: S# `) | "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all . f% M5 o m- m" C; z6 S
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a # O' B0 m9 X/ N9 P- B
year they send us a complete dick." |
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