Chuckle 1122

Chuckle 1122
(Rick R of Surrey BC gets today's chuckle thanks!)

~Pouletical Prize~
(Plus: Today in History, Word for the Day and 6 Differences.)

John 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 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.

The farmer'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.

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. 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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Word of the Day for Thursday August 3, 2006

concatenation \kon-kat-uh-NAY-shuhn; kuhn-\, noun:A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

But at this stage the accident appears to have been just that, a dreadful concatenation of random events.-- "Dreadfully random", The Guardian, March 1, 2001

She invested a variety of significances in the word "there," a concatenation of linked associations with space, time, and place too.-- Nuruddin Farah, Secrets

To most people the point she plays most brilliantly is the episode, which in the novel is merely one of the links in the concatenation of the plot, but in the short story is the form and substance, the very thing itself.-- Henry Dwight Sedgwick, "The Novels of Mrs. Wharton", The Atlantic, August 1906

The process of fossilization and discovery is a concatenation of chance built upon chance. It's amazing that anything ever becomes a fossil at all.-- Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time
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