A Montana
cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous 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 Cingular RAZR V3 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 was 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.
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NICE ONE I LIKE IT & YOUR LEGS TOOOO. THIS GETS A FROG FROM ME!!
replyYup, Definitely a congressman! Good one! {jibbed}
replyCows & congress.....alot of Bull....
reply"Republican party accounting firm" Hunter
replyThat is the government all right -- and the Dems & big gov't Republiclans (used to be an oxymoron before the Bush dynasty) think we need MORE big government. Huh! We need a third party!!
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