The Shepherd And The Suit

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A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand
new BMW X5 advanced out of dust cloud towards him. The driver a young man in
a Boss suit, Gucci shoes, Police sunglasses and Hermes tie, leans out of the
window and asks the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have
in your flock, will you give me one?"

The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a suit, and replies, "Sure why
not?"
The man parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it
to his O2 mobile phone, engages his GPS satellite system to get an exact
fix on his location which he then feeds to a 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.

Within seconds he receives an email on his Palm Tungsten that the image has
been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database
through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex
formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and
after a few minutes receives a response. Finally, he prints out a
full-colour, 150 page report on his miniature HP Laserjet 650i
printer, turns to the shepherd and says, "you have exactly 1586 sheep."

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

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as
the young man tries to stuff it into the back of his offroader.

Then the shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly
what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?"

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "OK, why not?"

"You're a Management Consultant." says the shepherd.

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

"No guessing required." answered the shepherd. "You showed up here even
though nobody invited you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew, to a question that I never asked and you don't know crap about my
business."

"Now get off my land and give me back my f**king dog."

Shabadu

brilliant!