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HUMOR: The Monks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Wed Mar 8 17:49:01 2000
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:46:28 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: "Joke of the Day" <Joker@joker.org>
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>Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:24:45 -0600
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> The Original Joke of the Day http://www.joker.org
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> You're Not a Monk
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>
> A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.
> He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car
> broke down. Do you think I could stay the night?"
>
> The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car.
> As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. The
> next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say,
> "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
>
> The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his
> merry way.
>
> Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same
> monastery. The monks agina accept him, feed him, even fix his car.
> That night, he hears the same strange noise that he had heard years
> earlier.
>
> The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks reply, "We can't
> tell you. You're not a monk."
>
> The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only
> way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I
> become a monk?"
>
> The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many
> blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When
> you find these numbers, you will become a monk."
>
> The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns
> and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, "I have traveled
> the earth and have found what you have asked for. There are
> 145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand
> pebbles on the earth."
>
> The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk. We shall now
> show you the way to the sound."
>
> The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says,
> "The sound is right behind that door."
>
> The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked.
> He says, "Real funny. May I have the key?"
>
> The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden
> door is another door made of stone. The man demands the key to the
> stone door. The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to
> find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who
> provide it. Behind that door is another door, this one made of
> sapphire. So it went until the man had gone through doors of
> emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst.
>
> Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door."
> The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob,
> and behind that door he is amazed to find the source of that strange
> sound.
>
> But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.
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