humor
ole Butch
John was in the fertilized egg business.
He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ‘pullets,’ and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This… took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
John’s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover.
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 Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
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 this year and NEXT,
…..the bells are not always audible.
Verse number three, comes from a Jewish poem, Haddanut, written in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai, a cantor in Worms, Germany. The music was arranged by his daughter Claudia Faustina Lehman Mays. She was born July 15, 1892 in Griswold, Iowa. One of nine children, she harmonized many of the songs written by her father. She died February 19, 1973 in Medford, Oregon.
work, more followed. At work, during short intervals of inattention (break time), more words came which he jotted down until he had completed the first two verses. When he got home, he went to the old upright piano and composed the melody for the two verses and chorus. However, a hymn has to have three verses to be complete. As he tried to write the third, he found the words were not falling into place as had the first two. As he tried to figure out what to do, he remembered about the poem he had heard at a camp meeting. The profound depths of the lines moved him to preserve them for future use and it was not until coming to California that this urge was fulfilled. He knew that he had saved the card with the poem but where was it now? His search was soon rewarded because he had used it for a bookmark. As Lehman again read the words, his heart was thrilled just as had happened when he heard them originally. This time he noticed some smaller print that told this story, "These lines were found in translated form on the walls of a patient's room in an insane asylum after the patient's death." As he set the words to the third verse to the tune, he found they matched exactly. God knew when he had the poem, written in 1050, that it would be translated into English and brought to America at the exact time Lehman was going to need it to finish this hymn. That is 867 years from the time the words were written and they traveled half-way around the world to be joined with this song. Since then, this hymn has been translated into at least 18 languages. This hymn was first published in Songs That Are Different, Volume 2, 1919.
