A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture in Wyoming when
suddenly a brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out of a dust cloud, advanced
toward him and stopped. The driver, a 20-year-old young man wearing a
Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned out of
the window and asked our shepherd, "If I can tell you exactly how many
sheep
you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the
young guy, then at his peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answered,
"Sure." The young man parked his car, whipped out his notebook computer, connected
it to a cellphone, surfed to a NASA page on the Internet where he called
up
a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, then opened up a
database and some Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas. He finally
printed out a 150-page report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer, turned
around to our shepherd and said, "You have here exactly 1,586 sheep!"
"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take one of my sheep,"
said the shepherd. He watched the young guy make a selection and bundle it
into his Cherokee.
When he was finished the sheepherder said, "If I can tell you exactly what
your political persuasion is, where you're from and who you work for, will
you give me my sheep back?"
Okay, why not, answered the young man.
You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working for Jesse Jackson,
said
the shepherd.
That's correct, said the young man.
How did you guess that?
Easy, answered the shepherd. Nobody called you, but you showed up here
anyway. You want to be paid for the solution to a question I already knew
the answer to. And, you don't know nothin' about my business because you
just took my dog.
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