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03-02-2009, 03:05 PM
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when
suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out ofa dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the
window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your
herd, Will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly
answers, "Sure, Why not?"
T he yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,connects it to his Cingular RAZR
V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, w here he calls up a GPS satellite to get
an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in
an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image
processing facility in Hamburg, .
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the
data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with
email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the guy select one of the animals and looks on amused as he stuffs it into the trunk
of his car.
Then the Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will
you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are;
and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep. . .
Now give me back my dog.
suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out ofa dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the
window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your
herd, Will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly
answers, "Sure, Why not?"
T he yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,connects it to his Cingular RAZR
V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, w here he calls up a GPS satellite to get
an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in
an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image
processing facility in Hamburg, .
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the
data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with
email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the guy select one of the animals and looks on amused as he stuffs it into the trunk
of his car.
Then the Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will
you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are;
and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep. . .
Now give me back my dog.