July 17, 200620 yr >A Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote >pasture 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?" The cowboy 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 AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the >Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system 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, 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 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 the >cowboy. 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 cowboy 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 the cowboy. >"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.... >Now give me back my dog > > > > >
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