Monastery Life
 

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...

C E L E BRA T E!!!"

Hahaha, thats a good one. Guess they'll have to start making up for all those years of lost time.

It's a bit too long for my liking but the punch line was good so I figured I put it out there. The best ones are short, to the point, and unpredictable. This one has one out of three. Glad ya liked it though.

Also, the original manuscript wasn't written in English.

/pedantic

WOW! Thanks for the buzz kill research. Very appropriate for the humor forum.
Well done indeed my friend, well done indeed!

Hey, I'm an obsessive librarian, what can I do?

(I knew this joke before you posted it, and laughed at first, then I thought about it and realized it made absolutely no sense whatsover. Sorry 'bout the buzzkill.)

(Also, if you weren't aware,

Obsess away my pedantic librarian buzz killing friend....

More fodder for research:
1. Blonde jokes and why they just don't hold up under scrutiny
2. Redneck jokes... why the unfounded stereotyping?
3. Priest jokes... why making fun of them is like spitting in the face of God (not funny at all)

Ready set go!!!!!

:thumbsup:

No no no, it's about the internal consistency of the joke. For example, a blonde joke posits that blondes are stupid/slutty/gullible, and the rest of the joke is consistent with that.

and for redneck jokes...

Poor guys. I wouldnt wanna miss the R :D

The post banter is funnier than the original joke.

That is sooo true!