i got this from the email... really funny..
.. btw you have to sounds on , read the story and be a little patient when you open the link below [img]smile.gif[/img] .
The Monk
> A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a
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> monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the
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> door, and says, "My car broke down. Do you think I
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> could stay the night?"
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> The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even
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> fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears
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> a strange sound.
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> The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound
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> &nbs p; was, but they say, "We can't tell you. You're not a
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> monk." The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway
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> and goes about his merry way.
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> Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of
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> the same monastery. The monks accept him, feed him,
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> even fix his car. That night, he hears the same
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> strange noise that he had heard years earlier.
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> The next morning, he asks what it is, but the monks
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> reply, "We can't tell you. Y ou're not a monk."
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> The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to
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> know. If the only way I can find out what that sound
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> was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?"
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> The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell
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> us how many blades of grass there are and the exact
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> number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers,
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> you will become a monk."
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> The man sets about his task. Forty-five years later,
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> he returns and knocks on the door of the mon astery. He
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> says, "I have traveled the earth and have found what
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> you have asked for. There are 145,236,284,232 blades
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> of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on
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> the earth."
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> The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk.
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> We shall now show you the way to the sound." The
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> monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head
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> monk says, "The sound is right behind that door."
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> The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked.
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> He says, "Real funny. may I have the key?" The monks
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> give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the
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> wooden door is another door made of stone. The man
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> demands the key to the stone door. The monks give him
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> the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of
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> ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who
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> provide it.
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> Behind that door is another door, this one made of
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> sapphire. So it went until the man had gone through
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> doors of emerald, silver, topaz, amethyst...
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> Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to
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> the last door." The man is relieved to no end. He
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> unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door
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> he is amazed to find the source of that strange sound.
click on the link below to find out what is the sound
unfortunatly, i had to remove it due to unforeseen circumstances... i didnt know it would crash your computer... i removed the link as requested. sori guys didnt mean it
[ 02-28-2003, 10:25 AM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]