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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 a3 L8 ~7 E7 ` l0 W0 Q% e4 X) o! P) _
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 3 w7 X/ p& S' g$ d5 X
little left to be of any use?"
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4 P ^$ N) A0 @3 H "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to ' a$ [% a& j2 P9 Y
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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( ^- {- N3 {7 q, u "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual . f7 |0 J) l, W) I- g
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ) ^3 e7 }1 ]0 V' {5 r% Y
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ; |7 f0 k/ r7 O! ]
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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7 S$ {, x* R& _1 \( b "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to . x2 n0 U7 T B& [9 ^) e
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to " f" U9 Y1 [8 Z
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 7 j, _) I! z) F' }2 @
plaster." 8 j7 y7 l) @$ H3 V' b- J8 w# i
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 0 n# @1 S. d) T+ L% H5 G
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
* _% E* p( u! l. w) K& X4 s! I, j leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
1 W9 L. |4 o5 x& B9 H "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ' k& u1 d6 m7 p- C7 S _
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
& d0 O+ i$ J: z( b year they send us a complete dick." |
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