This may be the funniest thing I have read lately. Hope you enjoy the laugh. Peggy
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:40 PM Subject: Fwd: boy bud To: "MacClellan, Maria" <[email protected]>, "miller, peggy" < [email protected]>, Mickey Pieterse <[email protected]> > > Subject: cowboy bud > > > A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote > mountainous pasture in Montana 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, > RayBan 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?' > > > 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 Singular 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 e-mail 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 Laser Jet 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 Bud. > > 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 Bud 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 Congressman for theU.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 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.
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