New laugh for a day - maybe

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 roosterscoming ,

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?

Ha - good one!