[Jacob-list] Fw: A Cowboy named Bud.......to all sheep lovers

[Francis Martinez]

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Subject: Fwd: A Cowboy Named Bud
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:10:47 -0500
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A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous 
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a 
dust cloud towards him. The driver, a man in a Brioni suit, Gucci 
shoes, RayBan 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?'

Bud looks at the man, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and 
calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?'

The guy 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. The 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 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 Bud.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on 
amused as the man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud says to the man, 'Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your 
business is, will you give me back my calf?'

The man thinks about it for a second and then says, 'Okay, why not?'
'You're a Congressman,' says Bud.

'Wow! That's correct,' says the man, '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.'
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