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Waterdog
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Posted: August-09-2007 at 9:37am |
A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a cloud of dust towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out of 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 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," 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." |
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6strings
Senior Member Joined: August-05-2004 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 218 |
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Oh so true. Love it. Gonna send it to a couple of my rancher friends!
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