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  • From: "Scott G. Hall" <ScottGHall AT BellSouth.Net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion group <trilug AT trilug.org>, "Sherri D. Hall" <SherriDHall AT BellSouth.Net>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] OT: Early Friday humor
  • Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:53:54 -0400

Brad Walker <flamingoaudio AT comcast.net> wrote:
Well gang, every once in a while my mom sends me a real jewel.
Having spent most of my early years in and around Missoula, and now
stuck in my high-tech work, I laughed out of both sides on this one!

Brad "used to be on a ranch" Walker

Montana Cowboy

A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Bryony 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 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 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
e-mail 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 int o 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, this is a herd of sheep.

"Now give me back my dog."

Have a good weekend!

--
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall AT BellSouth.Net



  • [internetworkers] OT: Early Friday humor, Scott G. Hall, 10/21/2006

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