On Doing it Right the First Time

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the scribes handcopy old canons and laws of the church.

He notices that all of the scribes are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. The young monk questions the abbot on this practice, pointing out that if someone had made even a small error in the original copy, it would be carried through every copy ever made.

The abbot takes the young monks advice and goes down into the dark cave underneath the monastery to locate the original manuscript. Hours go by and nobody sees the abbot.

The young monk goes to look for the abbot and finds him banging his head against the wall and bemoaning, "We missed the R!, We missed the R!".

The young monk interrupts the abbot and inquires, "What's wrong, father?"

With a choking voice, the abbot replies, "The word is.... Celebrate".