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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
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books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a$ N0 Q( ^5 b6 i/ @. d! {) U
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ) s1 b. D7 S' V( n- `
little left to be of any use?" % A3 q+ l$ X& U8 S; C3 n
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 3 d' g4 C/ h( B
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
# r$ ]+ F; ^0 p3 P" S \) ~& j# W7 q bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
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3 z x# W0 I8 f! x& y5 J% r/ E3 w "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left # o6 o) g* P: F5 [9 N' B
over after setting a cast on a patient?" 4 B& ?% i, J! U: @
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
/ r8 v8 L/ Q6 M) z/ k/ s trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
: S, i: {9 m4 K+ ` W8 M& U( a the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 8 J ^; y- M6 c* j' j6 ]5 P
plaster."
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4 \$ M5 F$ c4 ~% J# x "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
0 L* @( g3 E4 U4 I5 m the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ; f$ Y1 m( j' B
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 9 v* W. D: G! T p' l5 N
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all . K! P6 H) V5 s. I0 V' p
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
* z) o+ c0 ^- F year they send us a complete dick." |
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