This will give you a laugh
>
> >
> > a farmer named Sid
> >
> >
> > A farmer named Sid was overseeing his stock
> > in a remote moorland pasture in North Yorkshire when suddenly a brand-new
> > BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
> >
> >
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit,
> > Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked
> > the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in
> > your herd, Will you give me a calf?"
> >
> > Sid looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then
> > looks at his peacefully grazing stock 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 NASApage 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 seconds, he receives an email on his
> > Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then
> > accesses an 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, 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 Sid.
> >
> > He watches the young man select one of the
> > animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the back
> > of his car.
> >
> > Then Sid 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 Member of Parliament for our Government", says Sid.
> >
> > "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
> >
> > "No guessing required." answered the farmer.
> > "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 millions of
> > pounds worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you
> > are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or
> > about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
> >
> >
> > Now give me back my dog.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> >
> > a farmer named Sid
> >
> >
> > A farmer named Sid was overseeing his stock
> > in a remote moorland pasture in North Yorkshire when suddenly a brand-new
> > BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
> >
> >
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit,
> > Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked
> > the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in
> > your herd, Will you give me a calf?"
> >
> > Sid looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then
> > looks at his peacefully grazing stock 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 NASApage 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 seconds, he receives an email on his
> > Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then
> > accesses an 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, 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 Sid.
> >
> > He watches the young man select one of the
> > animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the back
> > of his car.
> >
> > Then Sid 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 Member of Parliament for our Government", says Sid.
> >
> > "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
> >
> > "No guessing required." answered the farmer.
> > "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 millions of
> > pounds worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you
> > are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or
> > about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
> >
> >
> > Now give me back my dog.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
