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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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* @1 \/ H* s$ S2 C books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a3 O/ I* Y( a2 H
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too $ Y. O9 m* l* p2 o2 L3 F2 G* v) z
little left to be of any use?"
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6 f+ ]1 ]0 x1 q$ {) h# Y- M "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to / M5 N c8 C) u# ^
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual , @2 Z6 _4 I$ f( t; ^, K
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. / y: k6 h. _; w" k3 i
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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: M3 P3 r- Y& y$ D+ G "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to " L2 ^4 K8 l2 N& O$ t/ p A
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 6 h7 C7 a! n* K! [7 z: v8 a& G
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 3 y; H, M# e& t! r
plaster."
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( y ? C; G: v9 c "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster - w1 B$ h! i( R' o& t& }" ^
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
6 o* U7 p# }/ l/ g9 t leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
7 {. V$ e, s+ M# R z' u" z "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all . o6 k7 @+ y5 h Q! @
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 1 u9 G% |7 D# h) {8 @/ y
year they send us a complete dick." |
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