Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand new BMW came out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan 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?" Bud 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 RAZAR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satelitte that scans the area in an ultra-high resolution photo. The young man then opens the digitalphoto in Adobe Photoshop and exprts it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds he recieves an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the datq stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreassheet with an email on his Blackberry and after a few minutes recieves 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 old man and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves." "Thats right" says Bud, "I guess you can take one of my calves." 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 Bud says to the young man "If I can tell you exactly whay your business is will you give me my calf back?" The young man thinks about it for a second and says "Sure why not." "You're a U.S. Congressman" says Bud. "Wow, that's correct but how did you guess that?" says the yuppie. "No guessing required" answered Bud. "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 you are than me and you don't know a thing about cows...this is a herd of sheep, now let my dog out of your trunk.
