Yep
Posted by: cyberkat <cyberkat@...>
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly
abrand-new BMW
advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni
suit, Gucci shoes,
Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the shepherd,
"If I tell you
exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing
flock and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his AT&T cell
phone. He 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 hundreds of complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an 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 and finally turns
to the shepherd and
says, "You have exactly 1586 sheep."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep." says the
shepherd. 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 shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly
what your business is,
will you give me back my sheep?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a consultant." says the shepherd.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the shepherd. "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; and you don't know anything about my business."
"Now give me back my dog!"