OT, sorry, couldn't help but post this...i've stayed away from the recent political debates (well, for the last few days), but this is too funny....
A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote
pasture when suddenly a brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of a dust
cloud, advanced toward him and stopped. The driver, a 20-year-old young man
wearing a Brioni
> >>>suit,Gucci
> >>>shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned out
> of the window
> >>>and asked
> >>>the shepherd, "If I can tell you exactly how many
> sheep you have
> >>>in your
> >>>flock, will you give me one?"
> >>>
> >>> The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his
> peacefully
> >>>grazing flock,
> >>>and calmly answered, "Sure."
> >>>
> >>>The young man parked his car, whipped out his
> notebook computer,
> >>>connected
> >>>it
> >>>to a cellphone, surfed to a NASA page on the
> Internet where he
> >>>called up a
> >>>GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area,
> then opened up
> >>>a
> >>>database and some Excel spreadsheets with complex
> formulas. He
> >>>finally
> >>>printed out a 150-page report on his hi-tech
> miniaturized printer,
> >>>turned
> >>>around to our
> >>>shepherd and said, "You have here exactly 1,586
> sheep!"
> >>>
> >>>"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can
> take one of my
> >>>sheep," said
> >>>the shepherd. He watched the young guy make a
> selection and bundle
> >>>it into
> >>>his Cherokee. When he was finished the sheepherder
> said, "If I can
> >>>tell you
> >>>exactly what your political persuasion is, where
> you're from and
> >>>who you
> >>>work for, will you give me my sheep back?"
> >>>
> >>>"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
> >>>
> >>>"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're
> working for Jesse
> >>>Jackson,"
> >>>said the shepherd.
> >>>
> >>>"That's correct," said the young man. "How did you
> guess that?"
> >>>
> >>>"Easy", answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you,
> but you showed
> >>>up here
> >>>anyway. You want to be paid for the solution to a
> question I
> >>>already knew
> >>>the answer to. And, you don't know nothing about my
> business
> >>>because you
> >>>just
> >>>took my dog." |
