BEnedict was a pious monk and during the winter months it was his task to show visitors around the abbey. He was very old school and always moved the women into a subgroup so that there was no inappropriate behaviour between the sexes on the tours. Because it was winter he came equipped with a heavy woven blanket. Among the visitors on the next group was a talkative loud golfer. "Maybe I should have visited this place before playing golf today - I might then not have got a bogey on the 7th", he joked, though no one else thought it was amusing! At first the visitors were foxed as there was no sign of a guide. The talkative member was just about to sound off about the domed ceiling when someone else found that Benedict had dozed off and was sound asleep on one of the pews. Benedict was embarrassed and jumped to his feet. He hurried the formalities, even forgetting to separate the men and women, but he soon got into his usual routine. "This here is an unusual coded codex from 1691; a lot of time was spent working out what the code is." As he concluded this highlight of the tour, they were all interrupted by the sound of the abbey modem doing its whistling handshake. "You don't have modern internet then - you are in the dark ages here", quipped the talkative golfer. Benedict was relieved when he'd gone!
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