[Rhodes22-list] Joke - Political

[Rik Sandberg]

Ha ha ha ..... I love it :-)

Trouble is .... What the cowboy says at the end is usually all too true.

Rik

brad haslett wrote:
> A cowboy was herding his cows in a remote pasture 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, Ray Ban 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?" 
>
>   
>
> 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 Cingular RAZR V3 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 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 the cowboy. 
>
>   
>
> 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 cowboy 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 the U.S. Government", says
> the cowboy. 
>
>   
>
> "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... 
>
>   
>
> Now give me back my dog."
>
>
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