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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
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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."
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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.
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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. |
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The
young monk asks the old Abbot,
'What's wrong, Father?' |
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With
a choking voice, the old Abbot replies, 'The word was
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CELEB
R ATE!
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Contributed
by Ian Quarrington (3.12.07)
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