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HOW MANY COWS

Added on: 2nd Feb 2014

 

A farmer named Sam was overseeing his herd in a remote hilly pasture in Hereford when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
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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?"

 


> Sam looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing animals and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
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> The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA 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 NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
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> The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ...
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> 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.
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> Finally, he prints out a full-colour, 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."
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> "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Sam.
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> He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
> Then Sam says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
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> The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
> "You're a Member of the European Parliament", says Sam.
> "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
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> "No guessing required." answered Sam. "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.
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> Now give me back my dog.

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AND THAT FRIENDS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS WITH THE EU

 


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