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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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Oh so true. Love it. Gonna send it to a couple of my rancher friends!
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