Canadian Cowboy Named Rich:

A Canadian Cowboy Named Rich

Born in Alberta, a cowboy named Rich was overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture in Ottawa Valley when suddenly on the
dirt road a 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 Ottawa Valley cowboy, 'If I tell you exactly how many
cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give
me a calf?'


Rich 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 Bell mobility cell
phone, and surfs to a Canadian Government page on the Internet, where
he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another Governement 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 RIM 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 Laser-Jet printer and
finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You have exactly
1,586 cows and calves.'

'That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,'
/says Rich.

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 Rich 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 Conservative Member of Parliament,' says Rich.

'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you
guess that?'

'No guessing required,' answered the cowboy. 'Your born in Ottawa Ontario.
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... This is a herd of sheep.


Now give me back my dog.