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Huck Finn, a truly perceptive gentleman from the midwest, sent this one about
monks in a monestery...

A new monk arrives at the monastery and is assigned to help the other monks
copy out the old canons and laws of the church by hand.

After a while he notices that the monks are copying from copies, and not from
the original manuscript. So, he 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 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 caves underneath the monastery where the old, original
manuscripts are kept in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of
years.

Hours go by, and the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for the
Head Abbot.

He sees the Head Abbot 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 the Head Abbot, "What's wrong, Father?"

With a choked voice, he replies, "The word was... CELEB R ATE "
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