Vote carefully, you have been warned!!!

TAPlank

To be remembered at election time

John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young hens, called "pullets," and ten roosters, whose job it 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 John's amazement, old 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 old Butch, he entered him in the local agricultural show, where he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The judges were so impressed that they not only awarded old Butch The No Bell Piece Prize,but they also awarded him The Pulletsurpriseas well.

Clearly old 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.

Vote carefully...the bells are not always audible!

Aka Ishur

Wait so...are we looking at Butch as ultra productive member of society as a bad thing? Or are we in favour of the roosters that made a lot of noise but didnt get much done? I'm confused.

Eliot Rosewater

Read the charter, especially the part relating to starting theads that will promote some kind of meaningful discussion. Locked.

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