Butch the Rooster

[Kathryn41 3,205]

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.

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That's great, Kathryn!

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grooooooaan

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