Saturday, November 08, 2008

Received this from a friend

That lives in Holland

A Queensland jackeroo is overseeing his herd in remote territory when suddenly a brand-new BMW advances out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a designer 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 jackaroo 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-colour, 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 work for the Australian Government', says the Jackeroo.

'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?'

'No guessing required.' answered the jackeroo. '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 used all kinds of expensive equipment that clearly somebody else paid for, 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.'

10 comments:

Reader Wil said...

This story is very familiar to me! Did my daughter send it to you?It's great isn't it?!

Reader Wil said...

Or did I?

Gigi Ann said...

Hahaha...that was funny!

Rottlady of the Ozarks said...

Thanks for my morning laugh, that was cute!

Twisted Fencepost said...

City Slickers?!
Don't know a dog from a sheep from a cow.

Pat - Arkansas said...

Thanks for my morning laugh!

Anonymous said...

This is funnier than I initially expected.

Renie Burghardt said...

This was funny the first time I read it (I think on Merle's blog) and it's just as funny the second time.

Have a good night. I am tired and going to bed.

Renie

PS. Yes, the ring necked doves can live up to 30 years, so my little dove has several more years to go, if she is lucky.

Wanda said...

Haven't had time to respond for a couple days.... Have the grandsons for a few days and they keep me busy.

This is really cute.

Nancy said...

That is hilarious! Must have come from Merle! You and she get some of the best jokes!!!

I am trying to catch up....yet! LOL

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