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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
% G2 N& D' g' @; \7 L audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 7 K9 a3 ?5 v+ ^
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a9 F: S3 [: q! H% r i; T
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
2 o+ y: k. v4 `8 Q little left to be of any use?"
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) t! ^' I5 |* _, f "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 8 V e$ h: b# \: G7 t) y
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 1 s/ }0 c6 {9 _6 s
bandages."
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% _$ y! D( f, y# H "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual + }) Y8 X O* M5 ?2 X' h
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. % i: V @$ B4 [, e. W
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ( l5 }2 I- s& F' P. c
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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' K3 N2 q6 x5 B, ~% l$ b) N9 i "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to O8 N7 g0 q* ~9 Q
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 9 b j$ F3 ]; f3 W( p, B/ g
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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- i* E/ ]/ _0 q* m; Q7 G/ H7 Y "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
! ^5 v, {9 K. W2 j% a the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
' X7 y2 o! Y E8 s) c8 s& R* v leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
# i, Z* O, X3 E$ u8 ]1 s+ z "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
9 L% q! i; p. R H" _3 s7 c the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
% v% Y& k+ [* p6 u5 ~( B year they send us a complete dick." |
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