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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to $ e6 t+ N& ^! B |( w2 }
audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
/ F- M. x8 u! h: Z* H: n$ K- t) _2 w books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a
4 h4 w. b5 G2 `- f' s. z9 T& G lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
# L9 d2 `6 N/ g: K6 Y little left to be of any use?"
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1 X* C- o3 J8 O- A" o "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
6 Q; [7 ^: u4 o2 N$ J8 I the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
+ G0 n" e. |$ U, U- Y/ ?- _# d* [ bandages." % R4 K9 U8 Y4 j
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
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! M8 w# s, D3 T% f% l8 f "What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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: N) e% I5 K1 `8 [ "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to d" e0 `" f0 g0 M0 E
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 8 s5 {8 L W+ q$ X
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of " Z. s5 t/ p' `( _8 q& }3 C1 U
plaster." , n: g0 G5 W9 Q+ h9 X
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
* k3 q' _. b2 ?/ X the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the
; a$ e n* n) Q6 e8 { leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
d% _2 Q& Y6 v- R "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
( G6 m/ d3 s( y$ q. F the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a 7 F) j3 L) U" ~: d$ A# G' |
year they send us a complete dick." |
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