A funny email

A
cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in
California 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 Cingular 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 mere seconds, he
receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the
data is 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 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 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 the U.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.