Fw: Bud the Cowboy
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> A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd
in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new
BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
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> 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?"
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> Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
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> 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.
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> The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and
exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ...
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
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> 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.
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> Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
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> The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
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> "You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
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> "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
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> "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.
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> Now give me back my dog.
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> AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT
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