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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
, \& p3 C0 v) q/ a# G! N. I6 H audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
3 O8 Q$ u0 _5 } books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
: ]# c. M8 I) P8 j lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 5 T; |" B7 L# ]# W) p# p
little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to # M, D4 ]- v9 E, d
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 7 K+ `4 ?9 ?3 }+ E9 B0 k
bandages." & o. q7 l; [6 P3 v* d# {3 G; R" l; V7 P
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual % ?/ A0 @( W; Q: B0 p- g/ F
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ; f5 K4 v" C+ Y( Y( u
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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( O N% {4 e1 V; K e8 b7 N "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to # W D* u- _! T8 l
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
+ `5 t* g# x* X/ z7 C the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 6 U7 y! {# C8 K) Q& S
plaster."
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# M J" u+ y" J, \& K& C0 P8 v "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
! b0 x" \! `' M$ F' K8 c% o the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the * X' G9 T8 A# z. o- x( x
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 3 b) I0 a9 q/ q0 b1 I, |
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ( g" Z {4 y% S! _; A& Q
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
, i5 N: H, B1 }' ^ year they send us a complete dick." |
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