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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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. H k) x2 w) C9 p: x" A books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a$ p/ F2 G6 F3 @& u# u1 U/ N
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too : G: G! Q0 D* Z& `
little left to be of any use?"
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% s1 ]$ ?9 ]: u( F3 p# @ n$ o "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 6 {# z* y0 M" S( u5 c2 U+ \% @+ d- ^
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
* K* x( P$ T l bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
4 i8 n1 y% X% z# b# H: X) ^ question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 0 ]4 W4 H" Z+ C" F! v8 m% j; G
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left * v8 g* S: D, P/ h$ B6 P# v! Z
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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$ v; s/ A9 K; ~; K1 j% ^! m "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 1 u0 Z+ K: V+ E2 ]
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
7 h3 Y6 I: C6 F) C4 W* t& o0 |- Y# h the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 9 \$ u7 U% R$ V/ W+ v2 Y
plaster." 5 @% i4 [" D1 p* D, T
/ W0 l2 w- ^+ {5 | "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster $ m, e7 v! j! e! v6 ~% x* V$ u3 }7 P
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 4 T/ K0 Z5 X! O4 k, ^% }
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
k* q, s: x3 `0 [0 o "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all * `" s6 Z( s$ I
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
# |, N' ^# n+ r6 Z: j7 |0 J; g/ b year they send us a complete dick." |
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