Butch the Rooster ....

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, 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, 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 Boone

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?

GWB

Is this an environmentally induced behavior from sniffing the "air of Politics" or is it genetic?