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At the end of the tax year, Revenue Canada office sent an inspector to
4 }+ A' m# s' L8 ?5 }8 ]+ x5 U2 l audit the books of a local hospital. While the auditor was checking the
* f- o2 a' _) D( o books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a& v* _( y: H; j
lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too
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/ c C: d; T2 |8 i5 d3 j! o "Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to
% K) R% w3 d3 W# {: L7 | the bandage company, and every now and then they send us a free box of
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"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual
/ x: E6 m# H- {" b7 T7 [2 N$ h; u question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way. 8 w9 ]5 b% X0 d D0 x3 U% ?
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left
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, o& M9 b+ L2 S "Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to 0 r; v9 h9 R& l0 }0 o: `8 t+ Z: _
trap him with an unanswerable question. "We save it and send it back to 6 q `$ E( i9 m) Q/ n* @
the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of , ~: I- D" g" U4 x B5 l. a# A
plaster." 9 o. R9 D! h8 m* f- j+ y; O/ d% z
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"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster
& J, B, v6 K( c# ` the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the ' H ?& ~2 D6 e5 q4 H6 i; l
leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
% V) O! j/ ^8 H' Y7 q" j "Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all
V% \ d! w; b- ^+ `8 P the little foreskins and send them to Revenue Canada, and about once a `# t3 q" g- j( K" ?4 D4 A6 C( h
year they send us a complete dick." |
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