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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to % s8 C, q# X: l
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
8 x6 ~" M: W' U/ h5 {8 k4 N books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
2 G* G* g; _; d2 q! K( v; i& Y0 ? lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too ' B* Z X$ E- c/ I
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 ! E0 g7 s( R: n" K' T0 ?
the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of + |/ ?7 `: j3 @8 F; G& O( E, s
bandages." 9 d' ]" d( \& s( B7 o' w9 ]; _
) m' q5 F3 C+ P9 W0 ~ "Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual ( z" [7 ~/ V) }1 q6 t7 |4 b' h
question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
) O1 r* h+ z8 c: g "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
8 w' R. {" f" v6 Y" R over after setting a cast on a patient?" % H: o* a8 F4 C$ W6 Z
2 y1 e* k% L3 l- m7 y4 }" f "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to # k) D* u" W+ i g
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to ; b/ N8 E, _8 F/ ]* k
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of 8 n8 D8 P2 R* Q3 C' M. f
plaster." 3 B8 |# L$ |" Y: X
# u" T: h) ~5 o1 c# Y9 b6 L "I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
) Z# s8 k( F( r3 t. h( Z2 l' ^$ j8 C. p the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
5 E" G+ u; W1 T! O leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
- }% I( T* b! S6 o "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all ) U& n4 s3 J. o/ `# w9 x
the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a * h+ I: _& K, p% O0 Y
year they send us a complete dick." |
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