Subject: FW: It Happened Down In West Texas.

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>> A cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a

>> brand-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 cowboy, "If I tell you exactly

>> how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

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>> The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his

>> peacefully grazing herd 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 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.

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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 a 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-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."

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>> "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the

>> cowboy. 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.

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>> Then the cowboy 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 Congressman for the U. S. Government", says the cowboy.

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

>> "No guessing required," answered the cowboy. "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.

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>> Now give me back my dog.