Sometimes it’s good to have a new approach...
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, and not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the Old 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 replicated 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 the R. We missed the R. We missed the bloody 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!"
That's hilarious!! So much wasted time!
Oops! Well, everybody makes mistakes!
Good one!
Cheese wrote:
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, and not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the Old 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 replicated 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 the R. We missed the R. We missed the bloody 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!"
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And with two ‘r’s the dark ages could have been given a miss : CEREBRATE!
I wonder if either theory could possibly be true. I would certainly make a huge difference in the RC Church.
could have been a worse mistake -- but i am not sure what that would have been
Cheese wrote:
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, and not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the Old 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 replicated 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 the R. We missed the R. We missed the bloody 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!"
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assig... (
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Sorry, I don't get it. Please explain!
bertloomis wrote:
Sorry, I don't get it. Please explain!
It’s a play on the words “celibate” and “celebrate”.
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