Bud, the Cowboy

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote 

mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a 

brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. 
 

The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, 

RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window 

and asked 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 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 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 an 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, 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 with amusement as the young man 

stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
 

Then Bud says to the young man, "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 Congressman for the U.S. Government", 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 used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying
to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't 

know a thing about how working people make a living - 

or about cows, for that matter.
 

This is a herd of sheep.... 
 

Now give me back my dog.

Thanks Dan !