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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
, c. a5 b( Y/ ~1 Q audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the 3 C9 g5 s8 z+ y9 O% ]0 h: W, G
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
! b% _2 j% [- }9 J: i lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too : i" w3 v; [% ?; ^3 |6 W
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
1 B) d& E+ K7 `- r the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of , g$ d1 ]8 L+ S
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1 g8 I+ k) G9 t& M3 S+ l9 o) t$ T "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ' ?" u; d; K1 n
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
) E& x4 S; E4 Y- Q+ m; x: g7 ]3 x "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left 7 I; {3 w: X" E0 X5 j% |5 u$ e
over after setting a cast on a patient?" + y+ a7 k1 v) }: l/ @
! G+ b8 X* w q4 Q w1 g" S/ ~ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
/ D& w* P8 i& Q6 ^: w3 t$ s trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ' z# L2 e& O2 F& b7 n1 j
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of " f! p) M9 g8 k: r
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 0 W' y' E' q+ U. B2 A
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ( B" A; b; \1 W1 f8 W0 v
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
2 V1 Z5 q( U. |; C "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
4 ~3 S2 p5 L5 N the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
, V" T5 f, ~/ h3 C year they send us a complete dick." |
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