John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had
several hundred young egg-laying hens called pullets and
eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs.
John 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.
John'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 since who else 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?