Egg-cellent joke (ok I'm kidding!)

Kone · 10-01-2003 10:55am #1

Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young
layers, known as pullets, and eight or ten roosters whose job was to
fertilize the eggs.

Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform well ended up as soup.
Bu tracking each bird's progress took an awful lot of Zeb's time; so, he got
a set of tiny bells and attached one to each rooster.

Each bell had a different tone so that Zeb 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.

Zeb's favorite rooster was old Brewster - and a fine specimen he was, too.
But one morning, Zeb noticed that Brewster's bell had not rung at all!!

He went to investigate.

The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing, andhe pullets,
hearing the roosters coming, would run until they were cornered.

But, to Zeb's amazement, Brewster had his bell held firmly in his beak to
prevent it ringing. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do the dirty deed then walk
on to the next one without having to break into a run and thus leaving
himself with the energy to service far more pullets than the other roosters.

Zeb was so proud of Brewster that he entered him in the county fair, where
the rooster was an overnight sensation. The judges not only awarded him the
No Bell Piece Prize, but also the Pulletsurprise.