Skiuseme
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2003
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- 409
A West Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.<br /><br />The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucchi shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a 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?"<br /><br />The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"<br /><br />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 where he gets an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.<br /><br />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 E-mail on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored.<br /><br />He, then, acesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with E-mail on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.<br /><br />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,<br /><br />"You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."<br /><br />"That's right. Well I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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?"<br /><br />The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"<br /><br />"You're a congressman for the U.S. government," says the cowboy.<br /><br />"Wow! that's correct," says the yuppie,"but how did you guess that?"<br /><br />"No guessing required," answers 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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