resurrected from before the election.
Old Butch
John was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young layers (hens),
called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing
went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some
tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could
tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out
an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
John's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine
specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's
bell hadn't rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other
roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing,
but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming,
could run for cover.
To 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 was 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.
Vote carefully next year,
the bells are not always audible.
