Politics

Every time I pick up a paper these days, there's more noise about which politician has done what to get himself noticed as a candidate for the next Prime Minister of Britain...and given the scandal and corruption that has also been all over the news, I was laughing my butt off at the following joke from Mom #2:

Max 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 Max 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; a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning Max noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!

Max 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 Max's amazement, Butch had his bell in beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

Max 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 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?