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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
4 L# v% t6 f: U! t6 ]3 p, h% B0 K& m audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* f4 |* `3 Y* P# p' Z4 h2 c books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
6 E, f) D3 S1 ~8 A" O' h% V1 } lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 6 m% _' f6 I2 Q: m8 g" E* T- X
little left to be of any use?" 2 i& n$ @4 C4 e, A) b% E- q
8 F+ n6 l4 e Y "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 9 s; o% S: b5 \, [
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
3 i- r9 d- Q# ]! N) b- p bandages." ' I" E& f4 ~& S4 @& Z4 M
% H8 t! C' C7 }4 {, J2 S "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
+ Z& y- ?+ [, F* W3 M+ C, Q; @ question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. . L. U" m+ q* y4 m( u3 ^- L
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left ) `8 U$ X6 j* ~9 x4 j8 f
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 8 @3 X1 k0 ^7 C: F+ H% {, E
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
) c. ?: r2 D+ z) Z2 p5 ] trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to / u0 E/ X" U/ [$ Z* S
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 7 p4 e5 z- i. I. i+ s
plaster." 4 r2 m) o/ l* [
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
9 a1 |9 z3 N6 l the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
4 \/ u" s0 a0 I! d3 v leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
( X9 r. [3 c5 L. B& ~! g! r- T1 q "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
4 j2 V3 K- H8 Q6 ~' ~ d9 W" y the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a - I5 B3 i% m8 E" t
year they send us a complete dick." |
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