Awful joke

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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 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. 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 is celebrate!!!"