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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
( J$ e' w7 D7 P lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 9 a9 Z, Z4 \ F7 L8 {
little left to be of any use?"
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0 d/ T5 d9 v) Y7 n5 ]5 b0 ^ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to $ U4 o3 O) w- D3 @0 H
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
5 {. h. m! G9 \' H% c bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
6 v6 N! R! e) B/ z/ l I9 a question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 6 q# S, c( Z8 i% |$ A( R; V* }
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
* X1 q# g$ G" L0 |) V7 q( F- \3 h over after setting a cast on a patient?" 4 y* n% f, D$ S( I6 }7 @8 l: L
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 0 K: J: L2 K% }) | T
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' @$ i+ K0 Z' t- a5 Z( Y the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of / W5 P: c* p3 y) b G, t
plaster." " L4 {" E w1 O4 k$ r1 `5 g" U, r
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 1 [, t+ A7 ~4 x6 H
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the . Q( l* ]% N, f" `. N& r; W
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
: f! J4 [* i5 W3 K" F8 c "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all . v. b8 q0 H, I, z/ o, G2 A& y
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
1 ?! ^$ h7 ~* ]5 y) V7 d year they send us a complete dick." |
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