john250
Well-known member
COWS
A Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote
pasture 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, 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,
thenlooks 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 AT&T 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....
Now give me back my dog..."
A Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote
pasture 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, 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,
thenlooks 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 AT&T 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....
Now give me back my dog..."
