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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to A! Y7 X! T. r0 p" M
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the % Q6 t8 [2 a0 t# b% f& S2 \4 e
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a, p' C: i; |; E1 p/ q
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too " F, }; b8 r: T4 K( K) s) g
little left to be of any use?"
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) e+ q' N! @- l "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
9 ~. E, ` b. b5 T+ t the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 3 Q$ [! s1 F: G* Q. k+ M* N$ {' o
bandages." & ~1 V) C n9 w7 E) a$ ]
+ o" Y: \4 U8 c$ a+ K. `3 r3 ~ "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual # ?4 x) p* y& t, s* k
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 4 j7 B5 [. s5 _( H
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 6 H- [4 N5 H5 |; x" V; H% I
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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# e3 M- W7 J9 P \ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ) [ k. ^4 ~9 ]; S
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
1 `" A) `1 H$ W/ ^, X4 r the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
. I! s( P, U( y" W plaster." * X: u' a" |' i; `
% f! d* }! k& I# R2 H6 ^! K3 k% A "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
, n- a, i1 h7 Z. }, S the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
1 k& ?' E3 {' [* J" ~- Z7 t leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" : d: G( `( S; @1 t# w
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ; I. N: n& {3 p
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 0 n9 U# @: W! I, W. B" n7 @) v
year they send us a complete dick." |
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