Not paying attention

Subject: when they weren't paying attention

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, 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 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?