Good one Jack. Sounds feasible. Your wonderful Irish sense of humor keeps us all smiling. Please keep it going. And any other wags in our list, lets hear your stories. Mary still laughing.(: - 0 ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John L. Sweeney" <sweelab@enter.net> To: <PMcH532@aol.com>; <IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 6:24 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Married Priests > Good Afternoon: > > A bit of reality and explanation is merited with the "Married Priests" > subject. > > At the time when those dedicated monk-clerks were "illuminating" > [a.k.a. copying] the Bible and other really, really important things the > Xerox copier, Printing Press, etc. were still on the drawing boards > waiting for things like iron-steel-electricity, etc. > So, all the copying had to be one letter at a time. > > I was told that a young monk-clerk, with a beautiful Palmer Method > handwriting skill had asked his boss, the Abbot, if anybody had checked > on the accuracy of the stuff being copied, it was afterall a copy itself. > > Actually, the original copy was locked away in a strong wooden chest > in the attic along with many pounds of mothballs and a > small bottle of Irish whiskey which was constantly refilled > by [yep] the Abbot when he had occasion to open the box > to replenish the moth balls. > > Anyway, the Abbot decided to "humor" the young monk-clerk and > take him up to the attic and get the original book every monk-clerk > in the place was well into copying. So, off the two of them went, > got to the box, had a bit of the good stuff and read THE ORIGINAL. > > Low and behold the young monk-clerk found a word that had > been mis-copied for many years by hundreds of monk-clerks all over > the country and broke into tears as he explained to his mentor; > > The 'R'! The 'R' is missing! IT SHOULD BE CELIBRATE! > > Love, Jack Sweeney, in calm, pleasant and peaceful Palmer, Pennsylvania > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message