First From Inbox

  A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous 
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW 7 Series advanced out 
of a dust cloud towards him. 

  The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Cartier 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, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully 
grazing herd and calmly answers, 'Sure, Why not?' 

  The yuppie parks his car, whips out his HP notebook computer, connects 
it to his Nokia N95 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-resoluti on 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 Bud. 

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 Bud 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 an IT Consultant', says Bud. 
'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. . .' 

[I like reading the last statement again and again..] 




''Now give me back my dog''.