Subject: John the farmer
John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and
ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city
folks).
The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform
went into the soup pot and was replaced.
That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny
bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a
distance, which rooster was performing.
Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report
simply by listening to the bells.
The farmer's favorite rooster was old Butch, and a very fine
specimen he was, too.
But on this particular morning John noticed old Butch's bell
hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate.
The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The
pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his
beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and
walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew
County Fair
and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result...The judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell
Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making: Who else but
a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards
on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and
screwing them when they weren't paying attention?
