Butch, The Rooster

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: Butch, The Rooster

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? Shocked