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Spelling Counts
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 sobbing 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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