The Monk's Discovery

A young monk arrives at a monastery.

He is assigned to help the other monks copy the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. 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 be continued in all subsequent copies. The head abbot 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 in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. The young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He finds him banging his head against the wall and wailing. "We missed the **R**! We missed the **R**! We missed the **R**!" His forehead is bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks, "What's wrong, father?" With a choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was... CELEB**R**ATE!"