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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: FPF-Tobin Dax on September 24, 2005, 01:26:52 pm
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Jonathan Ginzberg, a 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 Jon 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!
Jon 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 Jon'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.
Jon was so proud of Butch, he entered him in the 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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+1...and I understand....
Mike