Slack proof reading in the monastery!
Life in the monastery.

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks with copying by hand the old canons and laws of the church. 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 mistake in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact that mistake would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The old Abbot, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son. We must check of course."
The old Abbot 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 missed the R !
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


CELEB R ATE!
Contributed by Ian Quarrington (3.12.07)