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Date Posted: Sat, Dec 02, 10:01:41pm CST
Author: Bob
Author Host/IP: 216-166-202-229.dialup.dixnil.grics.net / 216.166.202.229
Subject: Appreciate This

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 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 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 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 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 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 Democrat 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.

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