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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
$ M* P+ R' [& m audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
% [3 e; J/ \3 m% C8 M1 z- V; i c books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a; ?/ S# h7 O$ F
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
* y. n& s2 V: d" u1 i. a little left to be of any use?"
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8 `& `" W( I! q: E9 a "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
* {" U6 ?4 [/ Z' I3 ? the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
9 {8 K) d: Y) R" X3 r# ?! L1 O$ l bandages."
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, F( P( x& j& u1 U1 r& V& z& y "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
/ G! t) M" M/ e% a) A2 @/ { question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 2 |5 v. i# O8 J
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
_9 e8 s8 k9 F3 P over after setting a cast on a patient?" , m, Z) \: z: ?4 i8 h* A& _
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"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to
* y$ S" Y, x ~ _: u trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to
, i. P" G# B9 o the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of , } s+ ~! M6 x( C1 `+ S. G
plaster." ( {4 C. d1 S3 i
; _" T2 Z9 Y( O0 R7 _- j# I "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
. G9 i d: O/ X, h6 E+ H" b4 k the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the $ y0 C1 @0 a' G8 |; t1 @
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?" + D K; u h7 ]
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ^4 a1 j( x9 P4 j& l3 m
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a # c! y7 }6 @) F
year they send us a complete dick." |
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