The Cowboy & the yuppie

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous

pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him

out of a cloud of dust.



The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan®

sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked 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, who obviously is 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 a 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 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 an MS-SQL®

database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his

Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

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Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,

miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, 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 Bud

and watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with

amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his

car.

Then Bud 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 Bud.



"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 used millions of dollars

worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are;

and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or

about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.

Now give me back my dog.

You're killin me here my young friend.