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Date:         Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:40:11 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <j_rodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: So Close to Friday
Comments: To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
In-Reply-To:  <20030724.221842.1412.8.wilden1@juno.com>
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Sheesh, Stan!!

The judge should have given you the Grand Prize for the best grade of Pure Corn!! LOL

Regards,

John Rodgers 88 gL Driver

Stan Wilder wrote:

>Zebediah was in the fertilized egg business. > > He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and eight or ten > roosters, whose job was to fertilize the eggs. > > Zeb kept records, and any rooster that didn't perform well went into the > soup pot and was replaced. > > That took an awful lot of Zeb's time; so, Zeb got a set of tiny bells > and attached them to his roosters. > > 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. A very fine specimen he was, > too but on this particular morning, > > Zeb noticed that Brewster's bell had not rung at all!! Zeb went to > i! nvestigate. > > The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing! The pullets, > hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. > > BUT, to Ze b's amazement, Brewster 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. > > Zeb was so proud of Brewster that he entered him in the county fair. > > Brewster was an overnight sensation. > > The judges not only awarded him the No Bell Piece Prize but also the > Pulletsurprise > > >


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