Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/10

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Subject: [Leica] Friday Follies
From: Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:12:50 -0500

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 investigate. The other roosters were
chasing pullets, bells a-ringing! The pullets, hearing the roosters
coming, would run for cover. BUT, to Zeb'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.

Zeb took some pictures with his Rollei, his Leica, and his Linhof, but
he developed the film in 20:1 Xtol by mistake...
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