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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: edward miller who wrote (36723)	2/8/2007 2:31:10 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62579

A Montana cowboy was watching his herd in a remote mountainous pasture whe= n 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=20= and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exact= ly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?= " The cowboy looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peace= fully grazing herd and calmly answered,"Sure, Why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects i= t to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Inter= net, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fi= x on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans=20= the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the di= gital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facili= ty in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an e-mail on his Palm Pilot that the image has= been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database thr= ough an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and,=20= after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, minia= turized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You=20= have exactly 1,586 cows and calves." "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowb= oy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as=20= 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 wha= t 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 thou= gh 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 yo= u are; and you don't know a thing about cows. This is a herd of sheep. Now=20= give me back my dog.