Butch the Rooster
>
> 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?
