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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
" ?4 t5 W( R# g) r! P1 G' U) d audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the ; u& l) N5 ?' u; g- a3 q
books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
7 M3 m }$ [4 @ lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too - k5 G7 B: e4 F% \* Y3 d
little left to be of any use?" - G2 g* s- p% S3 m: F/ M6 A+ b6 M
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to 7 Y5 x4 U. a+ W6 |4 }- P4 o
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of * w, r( h* s4 @% b
bandages."
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual 9 q( c5 e. ]2 {2 p/ H8 b4 u; A, g) x
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 6 e* E. |4 H K" q
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left , L! f( H) ]: N* s8 x( u
over after setting a cast on a patient?" ] M1 D: e$ [
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to ) A1 B ~0 e S5 ~: _3 m
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 2 L, Q( K' T% g- K! W1 F) _' q
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of
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& G6 p5 i5 L) r "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
; N" U' d0 m) n9 e7 l the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the * y9 ]$ S( v+ ~% _' ]6 f- |" e$ z
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
! f' L) _$ H7 m! w4 O "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
% ~' T8 C! a; f$ n/ W the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
1 @3 L a4 J0 i; }; u year they send us a complete dick." |
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