Who's Smarter???

> A West Texas cowboy was herding 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 AT&T 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-color, 150-page report
> on his hi-tech,miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns
> 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're a Congressman for the U.S. 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; 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............. Now give
> me back my dog."