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jar
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Message 1 of 4 (116052)
06-17-2004 12:46 PM


A new young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help 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 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 abbot says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."
So he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscript is 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 downstairs to look for him.
He sees him banging his head against the wall, and wailing, "We forgot the 'R', we forgot 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."

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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Dan Carroll
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Message 2 of 4 (116054)
06-17-2004 12:50 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by jar
06-17-2004 12:46 PM


Hey, did you ever notice this? On page 375 it says "Jebus".
(pause)
It's supposed to be "Jesus", right?

"Egos drone and pose alone, Like black balloons, all banged and blown
On a backwards river the infidels shiver in the stench of belief.
And tell my mama I'm a hundred years late; I'm over the rails and out of the race
The crippled psalms of an age that won't thaw are ringing in my ears"
-Beck

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Wounded King
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From: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Joined: 04-09-2003


Message 3 of 4 (116068)
06-17-2004 1:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by jar
06-17-2004 12:46 PM


That joke doesn't work with my spelling.

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Mission for Truth
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Message 4 of 4 (116089)
06-17-2004 2:27 PM


LOL, good one jar!

  
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