A Texas Cowboy Joke

A Texas cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture
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, 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 cowboy 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 Sprint Air Card 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 Treo 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-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
Miniaturized HP Laser Jet 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 the animal 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’re a Congressman in the US Government”, says the cowboy.

“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 and 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.”