The Cowboy and the Yuppie

Posted by Allan in NE on April 21, 2005 at 06:27:02 from (148.78.243.24):

A cowboy was working cattle 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, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

The cowboy 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 Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T 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. 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 hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an 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 1586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," 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?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

"You're a consultant." 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 though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an
answer I already knew; to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my business."

"Now give me back my DOG."

Follow Ups:

• Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie Ducknose Bob 17:01:10 04/21/05 (0)
• Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie David A. Hodson 14:32:54 04/21/05 (0)
• Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie PatMx 06:43:46 04/21/05 (5)
  • Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie Allan in NE 07:22:49 04/21/05 (4)
    • Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie PatMx 07:30:25 04/21/05 (3)
      • Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie Allan in NE 08:06:17 04/21/05 (2)
        • Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie Mike Becker 11:06:56 04/21/05 (1)
          • Re: The Cowboy and the Yuppie CJ-maybe 13:21:12 04/21/05 (0)

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