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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to $ w8 o9 Z9 H& o' I: U1 r$ ~
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
+ u; j/ A5 y1 n0 N* p5 y books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a$ R: f2 L. [$ v3 x1 ? J" g! u
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too % s% }4 Y3 }6 W' `3 ^: y2 K
little left to be of any use?"
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"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
( [2 Q$ v" W" U9 K2 V the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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. q; c, B) y6 N) q "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
: w, d. H. `( p( k7 l0 a7 V: k: g- c question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. * C+ X c, F; m6 K' [) o
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left " x- X! ~) `# `
over after setting a cast on a patient?"
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1 Z$ ~& B, }6 K8 Y) p. h "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 8 d% H) M& T! v9 z1 v
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 9 U4 D$ Z3 O$ p
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 1 ]4 Q5 S7 S% @6 O: w% o( e4 r
plaster." . N& J. |# g& w3 A7 j0 U
* l" ?* H( E# S: u: R8 ]# ?" [ "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
$ [+ e0 u5 g$ Q# s5 n) B5 Y( k the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
' F" n; |2 z1 j% D leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" 6 z( ]& F2 O. U% Z- F' j
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ; H6 W. ], Q$ s
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a
, O* e1 D& b# E7 X4 ~ year they send us a complete dick." |
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