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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to ( T2 k q; K$ j/ A% j8 n
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
+ Q; `/ {2 M- O' N- M7 P$ M books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a5 G! t/ D. B0 ~' L [' y* T ~% N8 Z
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
3 K8 ?6 }4 v W6 W4 o/ g little left to be of any use?"
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; c# ]: Z0 H9 f& V "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to & A7 X3 b* \% e6 `- Q6 n
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of ! M, B p; W5 n6 O0 [2 g
bandages."
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& u8 M1 ~/ E5 F- H$ H "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ! ~' e( i, Z; @; w1 L9 q$ B( z1 O. _, [
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
5 X, q+ H# m9 a# W7 l0 e( y+ W/ [7 I "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left & a8 u3 h- U3 ]5 S; i: m
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
; j( o& _3 Z/ t/ |- v! J% h trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 7 K4 b! ]$ w; J2 _
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
, [' x4 l4 d- O9 R$ n plaster." + @! a, I. E0 v7 Z
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 0 V7 E* f9 s, q9 H. }/ z! f8 C
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
. ~" v6 _; N7 G6 X& X leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
* J* R6 b. Y/ D* i "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ; z% N4 Q8 ?' c" Z" Y/ `
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
+ b! {" ~7 s ]5 {; ?) ^) T6 |2 T year they send us a complete dick." |
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