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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 5 i( Q# p2 A0 h/ B* W+ B4 ?; D& U
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
% [" E/ c; u& P books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a3 u' _0 y" C5 ^. Z/ Y- g
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ' l! Y0 i$ |3 A( S1 ]+ E
little left to be of any use?" 4 S: T% H1 t6 B: P
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
% n$ L* J: a4 d, c6 P- B6 K the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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, N# [; p2 T' E# S* c "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
3 \! H1 l0 ?3 K5 L+ |# I question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
2 t* E6 g, Z& R( _, X' y c "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
& t$ e! s/ S6 c/ f# [' X over after setting a cast on a patient?" ^2 P: t1 b1 m$ ]3 c, Z: h
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to & o) r$ T B! N
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' s6 ?! q: ]0 ? D) s; b0 f$ j0 E! Q W the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of . n: S# _9 K3 B2 \" b! t5 f( d9 S% ?
plaster." , Q0 g1 n( q; s# s) J; H1 V; A
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
) y$ v( K+ b4 H* h) Q4 i the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the 1 Y9 P/ ~, J7 _/ _# [
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" % K; X3 R, n& `2 E( t Z
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 8 W, b6 Z7 C; ? e
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
V3 R. [/ A; g, U year they send us a complete dick." |
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