Friday 24 August 2012

Friday Funny - The Monks


THE MONKS...
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 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...


"CELEBRATE !!!"

9 comments:

Di said...

I'd forgotten this one - brilliant :) Happy Friday Sam! Hugs, Di xx

Sarn said...

Ha ha ha ha ha!
ROFL.
Love it xxx

ElizabethR said...

LOL You do know I work for a Priest, don't you and we have lots of Monks that come and stay lol. Have a good weekend, just me and the dog here, so crafting time a plenty, yippee. Elizabeth xxx and wine of course!

Annie said...

Hehehe brilliant.
Hugs,
A x

Kim said...

Oh, Very good!!!

Lunch Lady Jan said...

LOL!!

Victoria said...

Absolutely loved this one!

Kyla said...

:) brilliant
Kyla

Darnell said...

Oh, Hettie, you know how I love taking letters out of words or putting more in so this joke is priceless to me! ILMAO!!