The Farmer and The City Slicker A young man in a Bryony suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, pulls up to a farm in his shiny new BMW and asks the farmer, If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf? The farmer looks at the man, obviously a city slicker, then looks at his peacefully grazing animals and calmly answers, Sure, Why not? The city slicker parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his 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. From there he feeds the data to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. Within seconds he receives an email on his Smart phone that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his phone 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 farmer and says, You have exactly 1,423 cows. The farmer is astonished because the city slickers figure is exactly correct. He says, OK, Im a man of my word, take an animal. The city slicker selects one of the animals and begins to walk away. Wait, yells the farmer, Let me have a chance to get even. Double or nothing that I can guess your exact occupation. The city slicker agrees readily. You are a Congressman for the U.S. Government, says the farmer. Good grief! sputters the city slicker, You are exactly right, tell me, how did you deduce that? No guessing required. answered the farmer. 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 dont know a thing about livestock. You see, those animals are sheep not cows! Now, give me back my dog!
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:18:10 +0000