TCH-Thomas Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan 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 young man parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, 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 him back to me?" 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 young man, "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 crap about my business... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxturt Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 I think that's very funny!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 I think that's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rick Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 The way I heard it the ending was: "...you don't know anything about my businesss. Now, give me back my dog." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted March 13, 2004 Author Share Posted March 13, 2004 Could be. I just found it like this and thought it was pretty funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarqFlare Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 That's awesome... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninepatch Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Good one, Thomas! Thanks for the laugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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