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13-11-2007, 07:54am
A Queensland drover was grazing his herd on the long acre along
a remote pasture in outback Queensland when suddenly a brand-new Range
Rover emerged from a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, D&G
sunglasses and Hermes silk tie, leans out the window and asks the
drover, "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 Nokia 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
drover 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 drover.
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 drover 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 Parliamentarian from Canberra" says the drover.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie," but how did you guess
that?"
"No guessing required." answered the drover.
"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.
Now give me back my dog."
a remote pasture in outback Queensland when suddenly a brand-new Range
Rover emerged from a dust cloud towards him.
The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, D&G
sunglasses and Hermes silk tie, leans out the window and asks the
drover, "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 Nokia 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
drover 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 drover.
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 drover 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 Parliamentarian from Canberra" says the drover.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie," but how did you guess
that?"
"No guessing required." answered the drover.
"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.
Now give me back my dog."