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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 6 }; q* P' P0 ]0 k# S# m
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ( P ~9 j) x9 z3 j
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
2 `: Y1 m) [; k# `% ^ lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 8 R# ]0 s5 O. e
little left to be of any use?" # p* H$ f/ W3 [2 k: M, q4 }. _
v1 Z" K. |2 D2 N1 L3 _ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to $ V) N$ j; l8 ^9 B! ]
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of - ?( \% Z3 ~2 C0 N5 ^% L
bandages." ; c2 a- [" u+ r# T+ Z5 E8 C
! W0 c8 v4 E' X1 b "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual + a' C2 _0 X+ \6 `" q1 k+ a/ V5 e
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 9 o" z: d9 Y7 b+ C. ~6 j5 n* e
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ' V; s, W. T4 {; s4 l5 s
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 2 Z2 M) `' y2 ^, Z# o6 g3 L& {; P8 u6 Y
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
9 x6 r+ b W. u0 n; E: d M2 E trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to . h* A" C$ A" T) q% m8 Z7 a
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of ( B; s; E) u- E5 S: ^8 ^
plaster."
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# S4 H. Q% R) t& m) q "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
7 c( k0 ~* s/ J2 ?( ^. W; C6 V the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
w9 q0 m! y* n( h4 n+ S leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
! O& E( w, d2 ^# i "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
- }( T' P' ?+ g5 }) K the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
$ A- z7 \/ G8 @! ]# l1 R( |8 s. ]7 K year they send us a complete dick." |
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