A farmer had 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 bell.
The farmer's favorite rooster was old Rod, a
very fine specimen he was, too.  But on this particular morning John noticed old Rod'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, Rod 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 Rod, he entered him in the county fair and Rod became an overnight sensation among the judges.The result...The judges not only awarded Rod the "No Bell Piece  Prize" but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.
Clearly Rod 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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