John was in the egg business. He had several hundred hens, called
‘pullets’, and ten roosters to fertilize them. He kept records, and any
rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This
monitoring took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached
them to the roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell
from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the
porch and fill out an efficiency report just by listening to the
bells.
John’s favorite rooster, Obama, was a very fine specimen, but this
morning he noticed Obama’s bell hadn’t rung at all. When he went to
investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets,
bells a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the bells, would run for
cover. To John’s amazement, Obama had thought of a way around the
problem. He had his bell in his beak so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak
up on a pullet, do his job and move on to the next one. John was so
proud of Obama that he entered him in the State Fair and he became an
overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not
only awarded Obama the No-Bell Piece Prize, but also the highly-coveted
Pullet Surprise. Clearly Obama was a natural. Who else but Obama could
figure out how to win two of the most prestigious awards on the planet
by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them
without being noticed?
