A  cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture  in California 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, RayBan 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?'    
   
Bud  looks at the man, obviously 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  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 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 and finally turns to the cowboy and says, 'You have  exactly 1,586 cows and calves.'
 
'That's  right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,' says Bud.  
 
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.    
   
Then  the Bud 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 Bud.  
   
'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. .

Now  give me back my dog.