More Southern Humor

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> John was in the fertilized egg business.
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> He had several hundred young layers
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> (hens), called 'pullets,'
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> and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
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> He kept records,
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> and any rooster not performing
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> went into the soup pot
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> and was replaced.
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> This took a lot of time,
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> so he bought some tiny bells
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> and attached them to his roosters.
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> Each bell had a different tone,
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> so he could tell from a distance,
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> which rooster was performing.
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> Now, he could sit on the porch
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> And fill out an efficiency report
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> by just listening to the bells.
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> John's favorite rooster, old Butch,
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> was a very fine specimen,
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> but this morning he noticed
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> old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!
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> When he went to investigate,
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> he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets,
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> bells-a-ringing, but the pullets,
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> hearing the roosters coming,
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> could run for cover.
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> To John's amazement,
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> old Butch had his bell in his beak,
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> so it couldn't ring.
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> He'd sneak up on a pullet,
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> do his job and walk on to the next one.
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> John was so proud of old Butch,
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> he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair
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> and he became an overnight sensation
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> among the judges.
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> The result was the judges
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> not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize
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> but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
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> Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.
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> Who else but a politician could figure out
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> how to win two of the most highly coveted awards
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> on our planet by being the best
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> at sneaking up on the populace
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> and screwing them
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> when they weren't paying attention.