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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 a5 w2 ?3 K, f& w8 T
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too / `8 q- z* `# o! e. T
little left to be of any use?" 2 F# B$ c7 {- `8 I+ u
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
# ?. m# i' g! u1 C0 X the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of 9 }. J- l" y q8 W
bandages." & b# m& [% C8 S. B+ E1 X) s# V
3 z6 u( i7 K2 X: Y- Y7 c "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
! @& u: }0 J1 O0 ^# R j- I question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. - \: V# D( B; o) X- A7 I
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
* v$ @9 v/ ?, k5 G, z- A( R over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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/ s; E+ s0 u7 r# o7 b) D" o4 o, W( ~5 O "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
0 b& Y/ r4 ~" ?& ` @" \; ^4 L$ u trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
5 C# z4 W! V4 e& g. d* c the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of % o) E- }( r& S9 a
plaster."
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( V( U4 L! b' v( E; T "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster - i: V, `' x7 ^
the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
8 [' V4 h( T z4 R leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" + Y' \( }6 T: P; d* D7 V9 Q
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
9 L5 S: M& Y) n1 W) e the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a # Y$ L0 _' q* v
year they send us a complete dick." |
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