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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:39:06 GMT
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"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
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> MONK'S TRANSLATION
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> 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 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.
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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 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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> 'CELEBRATE !!!'
>
At last, a funny one LOL.
Mercury.
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