Tony the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several
hundred young laying hens (pullets) and eight or ten roosters, whose job was
to fertilise the eggs.
Tony 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 Tony 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.
Farmer Tony's favourite rooster was old Gordon, and a very fine
specimen he was too. But on this particular morning Tony noticed old
Gordon's bell hadn't rung at all!
Tony went to investigate. All the other roosters were chasing pullets,
bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would
run for cover. But to farmer Tony's amazement, Gordon had his bell in his
beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do the business and
walk on to the next one.
Tony was so proud of Gordon, he entered him in the West Berks County
Fair and Gordon became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result
was the judges not only awarded Gordon the No Bell Peace Prize but they also
awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly Gordon 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.
Do you know a Pullitician called Gordon?
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