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The Jackaroo

A Queensland jackaroo is overseeing his herd in remote territory when
suddenly a brand-new BMW advances out of a dust cloud towards him. The
driver, a young man in a designer 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?'

The jackaroo 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 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-resoluti on 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 a 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 the Jackaroo.

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 Jackaroo 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 work for the Australian Government', says the Jackaroo.

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

'No guessing required.' answered the jackaroo. '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 all kinds of expensive
equipment that clearly somebody else paid for, 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.'

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Sometimes you have to go out on a limb to turn over a new leaf

Don't trust his words, trust his actions.


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