Joke

I received this joke in my email this morning and had to share it.<br />n<br />nA cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a<br />nbrand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him.<br />n<br />nThe driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses<br />nYSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly<br />nhow many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?"<br />n<br />nThe cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his<br />npeacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"<br />n<br />nThe yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects<br />nit to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he<br />ncalls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his<br />nlocation which he then feeds to another NASA<br />nSatellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The<br />nyoung man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it<br />nto an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.<br />n<br />nWithin seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has<br />nbeen processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database<br />nthrough an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex. He<br />nuploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few<br />nminutes, receives a response.<br />n<br />nFinally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,<br />nminiaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and<br />nsays, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."<br />n<br />n"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the<br />ncowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on<br />namused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.<br />n<br />nThen the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly<br />nwhat your business is, will you give me back my calf?"<br />n<br />nThe young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why<br />nnot?"<br />n<br />n"You're a consultant," says the cowboy.<br />n<br />n"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"<br />n<br />n"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even<br />nthough nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already<br />nknew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my<br />nbusiness…<br />n<br />nNow give me back my dog.<br />n<br />n<b>Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Sid Caesar</b>