16 March 2009

Cowboy humor

Courtesy of my friend Doug:
A Montana man was overseeing his herd in a remote mountain pasture when a brand-new BMW suddenly advanced out of a cloud of dust towards him. The driver, a youngish man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses, and a YSL tie, leans out the open window and asks the man, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The man looks at the driver, obviously a damned 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 cellphone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet. There 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 using email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color report on his HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy, and proudly says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's number's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my animals," says the man.
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 man says to the driver, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me that animal back?"
The young man thinks about it for a second, and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the US Government," says the man.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "But how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required," answered the man. "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 damn thing about cows. This is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my damned dog."

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