Koshaw
03-17-2009, 06:39 AM
A rancher named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a
dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci
shoes, Ray Ban 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?'
The 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, where 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 Photo shop and exports it to an
image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. 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 e-mail 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 young man select one of the animals and looks on amused
as the young man 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 U.S. 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.
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a
dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci
shoes, Ray Ban 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?'
The 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, where 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 Photo shop and exports it to an
image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. 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 e-mail 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 young man select one of the animals and looks on amused
as the young man 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 U.S. 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.