[pct-l] Record Hikes and cows.......( What the Hell is wrong with (some) of you people?)

[Tortoise]

Heard similar before.  Usually its about a consultant or a geek.

Just a reminder --  those congressmen from the US Government are the 
ones that set aside and fund the PCT.

Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>

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Andrea Dinsmore wrote:
> A Montana cowboy was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
> pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud
> towards him.
>
> The driver, a young man in a Brioni 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 cowboy 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 w! hich 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 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 Cowboy.
> 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 cowboy 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're a Congressman for the U.S. Government', says the cowboy.
>
> 'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?'
>
> 'No! guessin g was required.' answered the cowboy. '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 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.
>
> PCT MOM.........MOUNTAIN MOM
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