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Night_Lurker · 09-12-2004, 23:08

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other
monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices,
however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the
original manuscript.

So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that
if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be
picked up. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent
copies.

The abbot, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but
you make a good point, my son." So, he goes down into the dark caves
underneath the monastery where the original
manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened
for hundreds of years.

Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried
and goes down to look for him.

He sees him banging his head against the wall, and wailing, "We forgot the
"R", we forgot the "R" His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is
crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old
abbot, "What's wrong, father?"

With a choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was 'celebrate'."