Posted on 04/22/2009 2:43:48 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
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!!!"
Heard this years ago and it’s still one of my favorites. Thanks for posting it.
LOL!
Right up there with the very true scholarly work published a few years back (anonymously, to protect the author’s safety) that the passage in the Koran guaranteeing martyrs 72 virgins in Paradise is actually a mistranslation (again, due to a single letter error) for 72 raisins or dried figs. The item appears in a section typical of many religions’ heaven/paradise stories, where an abundance of various sort of fruit and other edibles is described. The “virgins” thing doesn’t even make sense there, but apparently some sex-starved early Muslim scribe was overcome by wishful thinking and figured it said “virgins”.
I love it.
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