[guide.chat] Forwarded Email: Fwd: No Guessing !!
- From: "elaine nutley" <e.nutley@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:27:21 +0100
> 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 farmer, "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 farmer 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!
>
>
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