One more: I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline...
Got a freakin' call center in Pakistan . I told them I was suicidal. They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck. --Doug On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, peggy miller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
