The Coolidge Effect

(With acknowldgements to Colin Wilson)

President and Mrs Coolidge visited a successful chicken farm. They took separate routes round the facility. Mrs Coolidge was impressed by the unit's productivity.
"How do you account for it?" she asked.
"We have an amazing cockerel that can do his duty fifty and more times a day," they replied.
"Tell the President that," she said.
Later, President Coolidge arrived at the same spot and was impressed by the unit's productivity.
"How do you account for it?" he asked.
"We have an amazing cockerel that can do his duty fifty and more times a day," they replied. "Your wife particularly asked us to tell you that."
"Always with the same hen?"
"No, Mr President, a different hen every time."
"Tell Mrs Coolidge that," he said.

The above fills me with a deep sense of something or other.