> 'Old Butch'
> John, the farmer,
> was in the fertilized egg business. He
> had several hundred young layers
> (hens), also called 'pullets,' and ten
> roosters, whose job it 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, a very fine specimen. 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 all over
> the place with bells-a-ringing. The
> pullets, upon 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'd 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 awarded him the Pulletsurprise
> as well.
>
> Clearly
> old Butch was a politician in the
> making: who e lse 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.
>
> Vote carefully this year...the
> bells are not always audible.
>