Terri
03-21-2007, 11:30 PM
My mother-in-law sent this one, so blame her
Bob 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 Bob 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 Bob noticed old
Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! Bob 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 Bob'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. Bob was so proud of
Butch, he entered him in the 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?
Bob 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 Bob 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 Bob noticed old
Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! Bob 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 Bob'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. Bob was so proud of
Butch, he entered him in the 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?