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 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.”
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 should be
celebRate!!”
And according to urbandictionary.com, celebate
means not having sex or to be without sexing up. Can be
either for relgious reasons, personal, or because no one wants to
have sex with you. =]
