i/nm probably shooting myself in the foot, but what Monk joke?

Well, I don't have the time to write the entire thing out (especially because the point of the joke is to keep going as long as you can). But the setup goes like this:

A man was driving along a dark, dirt road on his way back from a long road trip. It was raining outside, and the man wanted to get home as soon as possible. All of a sudden, his old car begins making the kind of sounds you don't want to hear and breaks down on the side of the road. Not wanting to be stuck in the rain, the man remembers that he saw a monastery a mile back and decides to hike there to ask if he can spend the night.

He is graciously accepted into their company and is given a warm meal and a grand room to stay in. After eating his meal the man lays down to go to sleep. But just as he's nearly asleep, he begins to hear a very strange noise. He figures that he can wait it out, but it just keeps coming and coming until he can't help but fixate on it and not get any sleep.

So the man crawls out of bed and walks to the head monk's chambers to see if he can't figure out what the sound is. He knocks and the head monk answers, "Hello, I'm sure you're wondering what that sound is."

"Well, yes actually," the man replies.
"I'm sorry, but only a true monk can know what that sound is, and you aren't one."
The man thought for a moment and then decided that he absolutely must know what the sound is so he asks, "Then how can I become a monk?"
"Aaaah," the monk points to a large and ornage door at the end of a great hall, "you must go through that door and continue travelling straight until you find what you seek -- you will know what it is when you see it -- and then travel back to offer it to the monastery. Only then can we tell you what that sound is."

So the man goes through the door...

In the tradition of this joke, I kept the introduction long to set the pace for the rest of it. And the rest is actually made up on the spot.

First you tell of how the man is walking until his legs are tired or something, so he travels all the way back to the monastery to get a walking stick. He sets out again only to find a tiger, so he walks all the way back to get a gun from the monastery, turns around, kills the tiger, and keeps walking. Then he hits a river so he turns around and begins walking back, he passes the tiger and is proud that he killed the tiger, keeps walking and is happy that he has his walking stick, goes back the monastery and gets a boat. Then he turns around again, each step in the process is repeated for each journey to a unique obstacle and away, and the joke takes as long as you want to tell it.

He finally finds what he was seeking, returns (and marvels at/gets out a tool to complete each obstacle on the way) and gives it to the monastery. Finally, the head monk says, "Aaaah, so you have found what you seek. I can now tell you the what the strange sound you heard was..."

Then you wait, look each audience member in the eye and say, "Well, I can't tell you, none of you are monks!"


It sounds annoying as hell, but is actually fun for the joke teller and the audience alike.

lol....ok. that is kind of funny.