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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
o; p" i- ~" ~+ s audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
) f$ k V' b! c( f) K; O0 ^ books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
- [$ p+ T" c( h0 f7 h/ [5 ?/ y lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 1 Q0 `; F' b# T$ x5 P q/ I
little left to be of any use?"
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- i) L3 {7 i! y7 \1 M "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 7 H9 H+ L* I% V i
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
2 \0 l7 U0 `5 \& i question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. $ F Y1 n! G2 O$ m$ u
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left - A3 s5 g, X6 F0 [. m
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 5 \" ~% r$ {9 l5 d6 {3 ^& g2 e
, S5 Y$ F4 _* D1 {# O "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
, ~+ K$ V1 W. z6 S8 n5 f, h trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
! B) G* j$ d9 c1 \- f the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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" G S# {7 o8 |" @$ k3 J% V( u! o! ^ "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
- u9 y9 \* Z9 z the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the # L& F$ \0 i0 P' o" F
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" % V9 g" m7 a" H4 z' A
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
" @; @9 Y7 L8 M the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 9 R8 X5 J% g: F! O9 M0 a/ I
year they send us a complete dick." |
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