Hmm.. I'll do you one better (perhaps)-
>A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a
>brand-new Mercedes 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, 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 an 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 animal?" 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 crap about
>my
>business... now give me back my dog."
>
>
