Wednesday April 5

Wednesday April 5

LEFTY

REDNECK

Who’s Minding the Flock??

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud toward him. The driver, a young man in a Boni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd, “If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?”

The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacfully grazing flock and calmly answered, “Sure.”

The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his laptop, connected it to a cell phone, and then surfed to a NASA page on the Internet where he called up a surveillance satellite system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 150-page report on his hi-tech printer, then turns to the shepherd and says, “You have exactly 1,586 sheep.”

“That is correct; take one of the sheep,” said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car. Then the shepherd says, “If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me my sheep back?”

“Okay, why not,: answered the young man.

“Clearly, you are a government contractor,” said the shepherd.

“That’s correct,” says the yuppie. “But how did you guess that?”

“No guess required,: answered the shepherd. “You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to be paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never asked, and you don’t know anything about my business. Now, give me back my dog!”

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