[Rhodes22-list] Joke -- Old Butch -- Sorry if you've seen it already

[Bill Effros]

  OLD BUTCH

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.

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, 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'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...

The judges not only awarded Old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but
they 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 this year...the bells are not always audible!