Today being appropriate: A Pope joke.
The Pope, after a long tenure as head of the Catholic Church, passes away one day.
He ascends to heaven and is greeted at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter.
"Welcome to heaven, your Holiness," St. Peter says. "Come and enjoy all that eternal paradise has to offer you."
"All in good time," says the Pope. "But first, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a question."
"Certainly," says St. Peter. "Ask away."
"All in all, I think I was a pretty good pope," the Pope says. "However, I am sure there were things I could have done better. I've always wanted to know what the ideal pope would be like."
"Tell me, St. Peter," the Pope continues. "You were considered the first pope by the church. What in your opinion are the ideal qualifications for an effective pope?"
"That's a very good question," St. Peter responds. "I'm actually glad you asked me that. You see, when I was alive, I would often talk to my followers about what I thought were the most important criteria for the leader of the church. Unfortunately I died before I could write them all down, and I can only hope my flock followed my instructions down to the letter after I had departed from my life. Thankfully, since coming to heaven, I have had the chance to sit down and record all of my desired popely qualifications as I see them in a book. Would you like to see it?"
"Would I?" the Pope says, enthusiatically. "You bet!"
St. Peter hands the Pope a thick, leatherbound book. The Pope immediately begins to scroll through the many pages.
Suddenly, he stops reading. Visually disturbed, he starts to shake his head with a sense of great disappointment.
"What's the matter?" St. Peter asks. "What disturbs you so?"
The Pope looks up at St. Peter, points at the book and says, "Celebrate. It says celebrate!"
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Principle #1: Don't trust retellers, get hold of the original sources.
A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.
So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other 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 cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what's wrong.
"The word is celebrate not celibate," says the old monk with tears in his eyes.
http://www.orcca.on.ca/~elena/site/DidacticJokes.html
namaste to you ~ Tommy_Carcetti
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