subject: Once upon a time.. posted: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 09:59:45 -0000
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new Range Rover advanced
out of a dust cloud toward him. The driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban
sunglasses and a Hermes tie leaned out of the window and asked the shepherd: "If I can tell you exactly
how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"
The shepherd looks at the young man, then at his peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answers "Sure!".
The yuppie parks the car, whips out his notebook, connects it to a cellphone, surfs to a satellite imagery
website, gets a realtime view, and scans and analyzes it with his custom-built flock-counting software.
Finally he prints out a 10-page report on his high-tech miniaturised printer, turns to the shepherd and says:
"You have exactly 1586 sheep here!".
"That's right. And, as agreed, you can take one of the sheep." says the shepherd. He watches the young
man make a selection and bundle it into his Range Rover.
Then he says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me my sheep back?"
"Okay, why not?" answers the young man.
"You are a consultant." says the shepherd.
"That's right!" says the yuppie, "How did you guess?"
"Easy" answers the shepherd. "You turn up here although nobody called you. You want to be paid for the
answer to a question when I already knew the answer. And you don't know a f***ing thing about my
business. That's obvious. Now give me back my dog."
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