The result of making copies from copies ...

[l_jade]

The new monk is assigned to helping 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

Comments

[janedavitt]

I smile at the idea but it's 'celibate' so the joke doesn't work for the proofer in me :-(

[l_jade]

I know... they probably mis-copied the "i" too :P