Evey
01-13-2007, 10:25 AM
An Arizona cowboy was herding his cattle in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud toward 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/calves you have, will you give me a calf?" The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his grazing herd and calmly says, "sure, why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell laptop, connects it to his AT&T cell phone and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet. He then calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location of which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high resolution photo. Then he opens the digital photo into Adobe Photoshop and exports the photo to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his Palm Pilot that an image has been processed and the data stored. Then he accesses a MS-SQL database thru 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 Laser Jet 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, but how did you guess that?" asks the yuppie.
"No guessing required. 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!!!
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell laptop, connects it to his AT&T cell phone and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet. He then calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location of which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high resolution photo. Then he opens the digital photo into Adobe Photoshop and exports the photo to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his Palm Pilot that an image has been processed and the data stored. Then he accesses a MS-SQL database thru 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 Laser Jet 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, but how did you guess that?" asks the yuppie.
"No guessing required. 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!!!