A Montana cowboy was watching his herd in a remote mountainous pasture, when suddenly
a brand new BMW advanced out of a fast approaching dust cloud 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 can guess exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd
will you give me a calf?"
The cowboy patiently looked at the man an obvious yuppie, then looked around at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answered "Why not?"
The yuppie parked his new car, whips out his brand new Dell notebook computer and 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.
Then he feeds to another similar NASA satellite that scans the area with a ultra high
resolution camera that photographs the entire property.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Advanced Adobe Photoshop and exports
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 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 recieves a response.
Finally he prints out a full color 150 page report on his high tech miniaturized portable
HP Lazerjet printer and turns to the cowboy and smugly says "you have exactly 1586 cows and calves".
The Montana cowboy pushes his hat back and says "that's exactly right." "Well I guess
you can take one of my animals".
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the
young man stuffs it into the trunk of the BMW.
Then the cowboy says to the young man "Hey if I can tell you exactly what your your
business is, will you give me back my animal?"
The young man thinks about it for a couple of minutes and then replies :Okay why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the US government" says the cowboy.
"Wow! Thats correct" says the yuppie "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required " answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody
invited 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 even know a thing about cows. This is a sheep ranch. Now give me back my dog!"
