SHEEP OR COWS.................

A cowboy was herding his cows in a remote 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, a??If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will
you give me a calf?a?? The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks
at this peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, Sure, Why not?a?? 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. With in seconds, he receives an
email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the date stored. He
then accesses a MS- SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with
email on his Black- Burry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, e prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP
Laser Jet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, you have exactly 1,586
cows and calves.a?? Thata??s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,a??
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?a?? The young man thinks about it for a second and
then says, Okay, why not?a?? Youa??re a Congressman for the U.S. Governmenta??,
says the cowboy.

Wow! Thata??s correct, says the yuppie, a??but how did you
guess that?a?? No guessing required,a?? 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 dona??t know a thing about cows, this is a herd of sheep. Now give
me back my dog. ll