07-16-2015, 04:55 PM
Billy - The Simple Farm Hand
An old farm hand named Billy was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in the outback when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and
YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked
the old man...
"If I tell you exactly how many cows and
calves you have in your herd, will you give
me a calf?"
Billy looks at the young man, who obviously
is 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 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.
The yuppie 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 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, turns to Billy and says...
"You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, you'll be helpin yourself to one of me calves, then, since you won it fair
en square." says Billy.
He watches the smartly dressed yuppie select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the man gingerly picks it up
and stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
As the yuppie is carefully brushing the dust
and hair off his suit...
Billy says, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
work you do and where you come from, will
you give me back my calf?"
The yuppie thinks about it for a second,
wondering what this wrinkled up dirt
encrusted uneducated old man could
possibly know?
He grins and then says, "Okay, old fella, why not? I'm a believer in fair play."
"You're a politician and you work in Canberra." says the old timer.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but,
tell me how on earth did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered Billy "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 dollars 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!"
"Now give me back my dog!!!"
AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.
An old farm hand named Billy was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in the outback when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and
YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked
the old man...
"If I tell you exactly how many cows and
calves you have in your herd, will you give
me a calf?"
Billy looks at the young man, who obviously
is 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 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.
The yuppie 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 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, turns to Billy and says...
"You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, you'll be helpin yourself to one of me calves, then, since you won it fair
en square." says Billy.
He watches the smartly dressed yuppie select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the man gingerly picks it up
and stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
As the yuppie is carefully brushing the dust
and hair off his suit...
Billy says, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
work you do and where you come from, will
you give me back my calf?"
The yuppie thinks about it for a second,
wondering what this wrinkled up dirt
encrusted uneducated old man could
possibly know?
He grins and then says, "Okay, old fella, why not? I'm a believer in fair play."
"You're a politician and you work in Canberra." says the old timer.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but,
tell me how on earth did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered Billy "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 dollars 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!"
"Now give me back my dog!!!"
AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.
Semper Fidelis
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