John the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilise the eggs (for you city folks).
The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into his soup pot and was immediately replaced. That was extremely tedious and 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 easily just sit on his front porch all day and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favorite rooster was and a real horny old bird named 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 quickly went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets all over the coop, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would scatter and run like hell for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak so it couldn't ring. He would quietly sneak up on a pullet, do his job, and quietly walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among all of the judges.
The result... the judges all not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize...but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly old Butch was also 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?
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