You might have known..........

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A cowboy
named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture in
California
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, 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
RAZR
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 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..

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. He 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, "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.

[robbankston]

good'un!!

[Barhopr]

Must have been ol' Duke Cunningham