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["Scott G. Hall" <ScottGHall AT BellSouth.Net>]

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!

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