John Howard Awarded Prizes

Dreamtime · January 19, 2009

I was so moved by George W awarding John Howard several prizes this week, that I was reminded of his early years in politics... and the potential he showed even then. I thought that I should share this story with you.

Trevor was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young 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 John, and a very fine specimen he was too. But on this particular morning Trevor noticed that John'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, John 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 John, he entered him in the Sydney Easter Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.

The result.

The judges not only awarded John the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly John was a great pullitician: Who else but a pullitician 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.

Now you know how a Pullitician named John got his start in politics! Mind you, as he got older, he turned his attention to feeding the chooks, rather than ringing their bells.

robeebee · January 19, 2009

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jewgaffer · January 19, 2009

I was so moved by George W awarding John Howard several prizes this week, that I was reminded of his early years in politics... and the potential he showed even then. I thought that I should share this story with you.

..........The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run

for cover. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

.........Now you know how a Pullitician named John got his start in politics! Mind you, as he got older, he turned his attention to feeding the chooks, rather than ringing their bells.