Montana cowboy

[Bonger]

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 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 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.