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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to / [; [2 H& y9 F& m+ `
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
! f! ~/ v! Q+ _, r2 M books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a9 h/ ` Y/ g2 k4 T
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ; Q& M/ L- F* [, s) k8 K
little left to be of any use?"
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1 t" Q- e+ X2 b { "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 8 `* `1 O, x" P$ @1 n2 I) A
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of / z. [! n4 J p/ l
bandages."
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/ R; h/ y$ {: X! O! W "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
* q: T! Z- v! z4 i( z. A: c question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. ( D# t# v' F" P1 t
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left % i; x. V( X5 V) F* K1 d
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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8 r. a& X+ }0 L$ G6 x "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
+ u" y0 ^" z, ?) R+ U2 v trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
! H% v; v7 i) {3 D, L the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
- K: s5 q8 f0 C3 C+ F plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster $ u+ ^! l. F( w, k7 D6 z
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the : l- H6 b; }/ U; O
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
- T5 N( O7 b5 q. q1 B' y/ b "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
1 A" S7 V, M, H+ u- B( R the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
8 I1 e1 @# I6 I3 @5 l year they send us a complete dick." |
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