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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ; z3 H' O; S9 c2 |, o# c
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the % v; h# ^% F3 Q: Z! D( k. v
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
6 |% s) Q- G e5 l8 { lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
! T# B5 Y0 \+ g3 a5 `3 K" N+ C4 d little left to be of any use?" $ f4 ~4 S& m1 o6 b
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 8 \( ?7 q& ]1 [8 }: X
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of # u5 J1 d9 c% g* c0 m
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ( c( h' m2 g {# r( q$ S. q
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 2 [' q2 ]( c& x1 I3 a
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
& Z# s& d* g0 Z over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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8 ^6 O+ ^4 s# D9 Z: S; i "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
8 |/ T1 u! _8 P0 { trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
' \& I/ T9 H7 Q% ] the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
, k/ }$ Z' v& l$ v8 [ B plaster."
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
6 n3 m$ H7 B% s* c the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
1 S; I! ^3 \% W/ I6 @4 d* \ leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" , |; | j7 h* T7 x1 ?4 _
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ' d7 ^- b; `% g: C) `
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 2 M+ H1 s; v3 S3 X
year they send us a complete dick." |
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