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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:53 PM

Subject: Chicken story

> Trevor, the farmer, was in the fertilised egg business. He had

> several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets' and eight or

> ten roosters,whose job was to fertilise 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 Trevor 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 favourite rooster was old Gordon, and a very fine

> specimen he was too. But on this particular morning Trevor noticed

> old Gordon's bell hadn't rung at all! Trevor 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 Trevor's amazement, Gordon 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.

>

> Trevor 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? The judges not only awarded Gordon the No Bell Piece

> 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?

genius!

Do you mean Gordon the Goofer (sic)