Counting Sheep

Rabies

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a

brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a
young

man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans
out

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 yuppie, then looks at his

peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects
it

to his AT&T cell phone. He 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-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 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-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer

and finally 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 stuffs it into the trunk of his car. 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, "Okay why
not?"

"You're a 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 called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew;

to a question I never asked; and you don't know crap about my business
."

"Now give me back my dog."

Agent7249

meh! the build up was good, the ending made me smile.

Commissar

Very good.:D

Shaque attack

lol:D - particulary since i get lectures from a guy who's a know-all consultant

quank

very good but one thing i dont get is why a man has 1586 dogs in a field.....

LoneGunM@n

The joke was good ... but

Originally posted by quank
why a man has 1586 dogs in a field

is better

joseph brand

@quank

there were probably 1580 sheep and 6 sheep dogs, the 'consultant' picked one of the dogs cos he's an office idiot.

But you already knew that???:D