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 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.