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Kari hello.. so glad to see you maintaining your humor..
Sending wishes for a full recovery... keep coming in to join us in the forum.
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Kari hello.. so glad to see you maintaining your humor..
Sending wishes for a full recovery... keep coming in to join us in the forum.
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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 head monk, says, 'We have been copying from the
copies for centuries,but you make a good point, my son.'
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 finds him banging his head against the wall and wailing,
'We missed theR!
We missed the R!
We missed 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!