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Title: Silly Monks !!
Post by: John9362 on March 07, 2008, 07:32:55 PM
Monastery Life

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 sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.�
'We missed theR! We missed theR!
We missed theR!'
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!!!'
Title: Re: Silly Monks !!
Post by: Martinez on March 07, 2008, 09:26:31 PM

He he, lol.

yep that would suck!
Title: Re: Silly Monks !!
Post by: musicman on March 08, 2008, 12:03:31 AM
I thought it really said celebrate.
Title: Re: Silly Monks !!
Post by: lilitalienboi16 on March 08, 2008, 07:57:48 PM
maybe i'm slow, or dumb, but i don't get this at all  ???
Title: Re: Silly Monks !!
Post by: John9362 on March 08, 2008, 10:02:06 PM
I hope this helps  ;)

Quick definitions (celibate).....In my post celebate


noun:   an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
adjective:   abstaining from sexual intercourse (Example: "Celibate priests")

If you still don't get it send me..no no  send Martinez a PM  ;D
Title: Re: Silly Monks !!
Post by: Sorin on March 10, 2008, 02:09:01 PM
maybe i'm slow, or dumb, but i don't get this at all  ???

A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.

The head monk said, 'We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.' The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.

Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.

He asked what was wrong.

'The word is 'celebrate,' not 'celibate'!' sobbed the head monk.


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Still don't get it? ;)
Title: Re: Silly Monks !!
Post by: gmik on March 10, 2008, 11:10:45 PM
 ;D ;D ;D

The forum is in a funny mood tonite.  Lets all CELEBRATE.  Now I get what the other thread was talking about!

I must be reading these out of order :D