joke

[Charley Lillard]

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.

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He notices, however, that all of the monks are

copying from copies, 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 continued in all of

the subsequent copies.

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The head monk, says, "We have been copying

from the copies for centuries, but you make a

good point, my son."


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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.


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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 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 ....

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