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funny story: a Montana Cowboy

nr

Well-known member
This probably has been posted somewhere but a Montana friend just sent it and it seemed too true:
"A Montana cowboy was watching his herd in a remote mountainous
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> >pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust
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> >cloud towards him.
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> >The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
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> >sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy,
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> >"If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd,
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> > will you give me a calf?"
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> >The cowboy looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at
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> >his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answered,"Sure, Why not?"
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> >The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,
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> >connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA
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> >page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation
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> >system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to
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> >another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution
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> >photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop
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> >and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
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> >Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image
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> >has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL
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> >database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email
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> >on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
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> >Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
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> >miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and
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> >says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
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> >"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the
> >cowboy.
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> >He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
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> >amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
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> >Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly
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> >what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
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> >The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
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> >not?"
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> >"You're a Congressman", says the cowboy.
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> >"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
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> >"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here
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> >even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I
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> >already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how
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> >much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows.
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This is a herd of sheep. Now give me back my dog.
 
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