SammyBoy
July 5th, 2001, 07:50 AM
I apologize f this has already been posted, but I haven't seen it.
A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a
brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of a dust cloud, advanced toward
him
and stopped. The driver, a 20-year-old young man wearing a Brioni suit,
Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned out of the window
and
asked our shepherd,"If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you have
in
your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his peacefully grazing
flock,
and calmly answered, "Sure." The young man parked his car, whipped out
his
notebook computer, connected it to a cellphone, surfed to a NASA page
on the
Internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned
the
area, then opened up a database and some Excel spreadsheets with
complex
formulas. He finally printed out a 150-page report on his hi-tech
miniaturized printer, turned around to our shepherd and said, "You have
here
exactly 1,586 sheep!"
"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take one of my sheep,"
said
the shepherd. He watched the young guy make a selection and bundle it
into
his Cherokee. When he was finished the sheepherder said, "If I can tell
you
exactly what your political persuasion is, where you're from and who
you
work for, will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working for Jesse
Jackson,"
said the shepherd.
"That's correct," said the young man. "How did you guess that?"
"Easy", answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you, but you showed up
here
anyway. You want to be paid for the solution to a question I already
knew
the answer to. And, you don't know squat about my business because you
just
took my dog."
A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a
brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of a dust cloud, advanced toward
him
and stopped. The driver, a 20-year-old young man wearing a Brioni suit,
Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned out of the window
and
asked our shepherd,"If I can tell you exactly how many sheep you have
in
your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his peacefully grazing
flock,
and calmly answered, "Sure." The young man parked his car, whipped out
his
notebook computer, connected it to a cellphone, surfed to a NASA page
on the
Internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned
the
area, then opened up a database and some Excel spreadsheets with
complex
formulas. He finally printed out a 150-page report on his hi-tech
miniaturized printer, turned around to our shepherd and said, "You have
here
exactly 1,586 sheep!"
"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take one of my sheep,"
said
the shepherd. He watched the young guy make a selection and bundle it
into
his Cherokee. When he was finished the sheepherder said, "If I can tell
you
exactly what your political persuasion is, where you're from and who
you
work for, will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working for Jesse
Jackson,"
said the shepherd.
"That's correct," said the young man. "How did you guess that?"
"Easy", answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you, but you showed up
here
anyway. You want to be paid for the solution to a question I already
knew
the answer to. And, you don't know squat about my business because you
just
took my dog."