 John the farmer
John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred
young layers (hens), and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize
the eggs.
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 reportsimply 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, Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.
He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was
so proud of Butch, he entered him in the Boone County Fair and Butch became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result...
The judges not only awarded Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also
awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well. Clearly 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.
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