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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to 8 ~3 L: t, \4 H! V4 ^) Q6 f# T0 p
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
( J6 Q$ H- l& ]0 M% X% l books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
+ b" \5 \4 M2 q lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too & t" ~+ Y3 a$ R( p1 y+ E' b
little left to be of any use?" * Q3 b3 q" E2 i
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 0 I0 z$ e4 q* J
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
4 _: K$ R7 d' l0 q$ L bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
% x1 J9 l; O! [. m question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
+ N1 ^& U3 Q1 _- _ "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
2 g: }- L, O& u' V O! r' b over after setting a cast on a patient?" 9 k8 f& s) w- B" T1 q
0 W+ C0 L w5 Y! l "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ! h5 {5 }% W- ~* H8 Q$ g2 \9 @
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ) y: V7 n, G) ^9 E8 b7 O
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 2 m4 W8 F. ]6 \: ?1 e+ O
plaster."
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( J' g" C6 ~3 m1 r5 E "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster 3 I% h! W$ S6 _" R
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
$ p4 Y% a9 }' P4 x leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
1 O. q1 E6 `/ W "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
1 c3 r4 A* w3 k3 }* h$ Y6 c: G the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
: S% I0 q3 C7 Q$ m) i year they send us a complete dick." |
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