Read this on another forum, had to share it here.
John, the farmer, was in the fertilized egg business. He had several
hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets" 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
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,
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?
John, the farmer, was in the fertilized egg business. He had several
hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets" 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
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,
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?
