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

[Hank]

That was great, Bill!!

On 6/3/08, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
>
> 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!
>
>
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