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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
2 a( @+ C6 t! L2 c Y' ?$ W audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
. D7 p G1 `6 @6 d/ B; A# h books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
! \( G' b+ }3 M lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 7 X$ N6 q: V" I" F: `
little left to be of any use?"
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1 M0 h/ Q" E' \* P: Q, E' \ "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to & D7 C, b, a( m+ e# s7 u
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of $ ^, C* _+ f% G7 V* `, c
bandages."
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8 q6 C5 ]2 Z8 Z( F" O "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
6 Q! s# F% ~% L. X+ h: E2 W; \: `. h0 Z question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
( c" S9 `. B' `; A, | "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
7 Y" C- _! |( C& [# g% r- K3 w over after setting a cast on a patient?" 8 p( N4 Q6 @" G, |) u
! e# [/ j: g$ J! O/ ~ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to : }. J: T( [) a( J' ~( z1 `, }
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 9 \8 S4 r& `4 G, z8 Y! K8 K& L, _1 p
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 4 {/ D5 L; O5 ~& N
plaster."
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, z/ _- z( h8 N "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
' |" n% ^% w; p5 T the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ; d0 x' O5 O; m/ a1 e/ a+ T, R
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
3 D3 t; l& I5 X2 J6 p, j! y "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all 0 r7 k2 s/ i6 o# C
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
" j! |2 B5 h! V+ d. ] e year they send us a complete dick." |
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