Guest guest Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 > A Queensland jackeroo is overseeing his herd in remote > territory when suddenly a brand-new BMW advances out of a dust cloud > towards him. The driver, a young man in a designer 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 jackaroo 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 Cingular RAZR V3 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 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 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 work for the Australian Government', says the Jackeroo. > > 'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess > that?' > > 'No guessing required.' answered the jackeroo. '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 used all kinds of expensive > equipment that clearly somebody else paid for, 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.' > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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