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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
: m( P8 h5 S) d7 P) B$ H6 z! N audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
, ^$ ^% ~5 h9 P# C3 K books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a5 Q' |7 t5 Q% p4 `3 ^& Z8 i
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too 1 d) t! m2 V: U5 C* Q
little left to be of any use?" # ^8 z/ {# P* X- \* m, q& n. ]9 r
7 M# I! D2 N- x& T3 g+ o# U "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
8 _9 r1 `; f6 s8 S1 n+ X' K! R; b the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
" f+ f* }8 u; f$ @, z* c. T bandages." 0 n$ C% {& T; N# L9 Y5 }1 z% j+ D6 ?
# r4 p0 k1 x/ q* x9 |. T "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
- N6 b( [. e- |/ c" B5 } question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. + f" a, X/ R# F) k$ ]" F, d" a+ X
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
, C. m; f) O7 }$ Y' V over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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. B' N5 ^# I" n, J "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
+ o, \ h/ Z) l S+ E0 _: t trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 4 x% L j1 G5 `) ~. n+ G4 I8 H
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster $ k# L" N8 e9 ?4 G
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
( g3 W1 x: N# p/ N9 D/ v) G leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
4 |2 n/ Y |5 I "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
* l/ k- z2 p" I" s6 A0 i9 V8 u' ^ the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 3 S8 X& n r: [
year they send us a complete dick." |
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