A monastery in the English countryside has fallen on hard times, and the monks decide to open a fish-and-chips restaurant.

A visitor comes across two monks working in the monastery kitchen in preparation for the restaurant’s grand opening. The first monk fries the fish, the second one peels, slices, and fries the potatoes.

“What are you guys doing?” asks the visitor.

“Well,” says the monk frying the fish, “I am the friar, and he is the chip monk.”

And on the other side of the pond, we have one more goodie from Snopes.com:

LAS VEGAS

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas, but there are more Catholic Churches than casinos (in Vegas).

Not surprisingly, some worshippers at Sunday Services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed. Since they get chips from many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings.

The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan monastery for sorting. Then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in.

This is done by the chip monks.

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