How do you like this one? Is it funny?

Question

>Subject: The Monk
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:50:29 -0700
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>A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.
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>He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, "My car broke
>down. Do you think I could stay the night?"
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>The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, even fix his car.
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>As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound. A sound not
>Like anything he's ever heard before.
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>The Sirens that nearly seduced Odysseus into crashing his ship comes to
>his mind.
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>He doesn't sleep that night.
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>He tosses and turns trying to figure out what could possibly be making
>such A seductive sound.
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>The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say,
>"We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
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>Distraught, the man is forced to leave.
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>Years later, after never being able to forget that sound, the man goes
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>back To the monastery and pleads for the answer again.
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>The monks reply, "We can't tell you. You're not a monk."
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>The man says, "If the only way I can find out what is making that
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>beautiful sound is to Become a monk, then please, make me a monk."
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>The monks reply, "You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades
>of grass there are And the exact number of grains of sand When you find
>these answers, you will have become a monk."
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>The man sets about his task.
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>After years of searching he returns and knocks on the door of the
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>monastery. "I have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked
>for: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God
>knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he
>is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception."
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>The monks reply, "Congratulations. You are now a monk. We shall now show
>you the way to the mystery of the sound."
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>The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, "The
>sound is beyond that door."
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>The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.
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>Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone.
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>The man is given the key to the stone door and he opens it, only to
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>find a door made of ruby.
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>And so it went that he needed keys to doors of emerald, gold and
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>diamond.
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>Finally, the monks say, "This is the last key to the last door."
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>The man is apprehensive to no end. His life's wish is behind the door!
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>He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is utterly
>Amazed to find the source of that haunting and seductive sound......
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>..But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.

I was upset to!! I want to know the answer. I guess there isn't one.
Sorry kids:(

Answer 1

looooooooooool dam u, and i aint going to go counting grass and sand to find out niether.

Answer 2

That was awsom. I realy like that joke. I know if i ask the end of the joke it wouldnt be funny but pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzeeeeeeeeee tell me.

"I have traveled the earth and have found what you have asked
>for: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God
>knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he
>is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception."

see i am a monk now so tell me.

Answer 3

I answer the monks: By design, the world is in a state of perpetual change. Only God knows what you ask. All a man can know is himself, and only then if he is honest and reflective and willing to strip away self deception.

Can I find out now?

Answer 4

Oh I am so interested and curious about the answer! I wish I would be a monk!

Answer 5

Good one....talk about suspense.

I cant beleive that there are some people who have answered who have no sense of humour. If it was such a waste of time why bother answering. Well I liked it.

Answer 6

oh come on !!!!
u gotta be kidding.
i read it all the way and u tell me i am not a monk.
fine.
i am going to travel the earth and become a monk also.

Answer 7

No. No it's not funny. What it is - is too long and drawn out for anyone to care. By the time you get to the bottom - you can't remember the beginning.

Answer 8

I nearly fell asleep reading it. And by the time i got to the punchline. We find out your not going to tell us. How typically American is that. tsk tsk should be ashamed of yourself.
LOL.

Answer 9

I'd say nice, but you're not a monk.

Answer 10

lol thats just mean i wanna know whats behind the door