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 (for you city folks).

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, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it
couldn't ring. He would 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 also awarded him the Pullet Surprise 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??

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