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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to * I n$ n. N* Q) z9 r# [$ y" L
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 2 c$ o) e% T! t. R
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
: h% q# M! o5 W lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
6 f0 s$ ^7 R8 n7 C- j; U9 e little left to be of any use?"
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* n9 M9 q7 R0 T! l; [+ Z9 a7 M; s "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 1 S. F. \6 w/ M. v) ?4 ^
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of & O* z! ^( F1 @. L; }" L! W: ?
bandages."
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0 `/ W2 g6 K* A n0 d "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 9 G3 y. }( L: z- H4 V+ g/ m3 p# l% ~+ A
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
" g3 Z- h4 \8 f% M7 L, p; m "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
& Q* |0 n" r# q over after setting a cast on a patient?" " a( T, a7 A- p4 M! ]
$ d1 t4 ]3 i6 n& D- n "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
% X. s: L: S+ e0 z/ n# P' `3 J trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 5 q! ]0 j; q# u0 M
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
w( M# q9 z/ Q plaster." ) [" Q. ` r% D/ G0 E, {
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 9 S$ P8 s& }9 I b3 m
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 3 r ~3 B$ ?) p. O/ n2 c; a
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
c& b! F s( V: f5 _; V/ k9 M3 H "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
1 ]* ~: G. f7 ~, F the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a % f0 e, b3 ~. O, q* u3 g- p
year they send us a complete dick." |
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