[PAA-Discuss] the cowboy

[Juli3 at aol.com]

A West Texas cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture  when suddenly a 
Brand new BMW advanced 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, 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 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 Laser Jet printer and  finally 
turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586 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 consultant for the National Republican Party." 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 damn thing about cows........ Now give me back  my 
dog."






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