I get a lot of silly stuff in my inbox and I don't normally pass it
along. However the following arrived this morning from a boater
friend who once did the Great Loop cruise on a very spiffy Flemming 55
trawler. When he finished the Great Loop he sold his boat and gave me
all of his charts and cruising guides. Those now reside with Tim.

I thought his EMAIL showed a touch of creativity. Whether you think
its funny or not depends on your perspective and sense of humor:

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BUD the Cowboy

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW
advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man
in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie,
leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how
many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"


Bud looks at the man, who obviously is 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 Apple iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite 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 Apple iPad® that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an
MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with
email on his Galaxy S5® 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, 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
Bud.


He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud 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 Bud.


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


"No guessing 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 used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me
you are; and you don't know sh*t about how working people make a
living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.”



“Now give me back my dog.”









AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS.

On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 10:53:38 AM UTC-4, Wayne. B wrote:
I get a lot of silly stuff in my inbox and I don't normally pass it
along. However the following arrived this morning from a boater
friend who once did the Great Loop cruise on a very spiffy Flemming 55
trawler. When he finished the Great Loop he sold his boat and gave me
all of his charts and cruising guides. Those now reside with Tim.

I thought his EMAIL showed a touch of creativity. Whether you think
its funny or not depends on your perspective and sense of humor:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


BUD the Cowboy

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW
advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man
in a Brioni(R) suit, Gucci(R) shoes, RayBan(R) sunglasses and YSL(R) tie,
leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how
many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"


Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at
his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"


The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell(R) notebook computer,
connects it to his Apple iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite 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(R)
and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.


Within seconds, he receives an email on his Apple iPad(R) that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an
MS-SQL(R) database through an ODBC connected Excel(R) spreadsheet with
email on his Galaxy S5(R) 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(R) printer, 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
Bud.


He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud 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 Bud.


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


"No guessing 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 used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me
you are; and you don't know sh*t about how working people make a
living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep."



"Now give me back my dog."









AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS.

Heh heh. Very good!

wrote:
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 10:53:38 AM UTC-4, Wayne. B wrote:
I get a lot of silly stuff in my inbox and I don't normally pass it
along. However the following arrived this morning from a boater
friend who once did the Great Loop cruise on a very spiffy Flemming 55
trawler. When he finished the Great Loop he sold his boat and gave me
all of his charts and cruising guides. Those now reside with Tim.

I thought his EMAIL showed a touch of creativity. Whether you think
its funny or not depends on your perspective and sense of humor:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------


BUD the Cowboy

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote
mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW
advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man
in a Brioni(R) suit, Gucci(R) shoes, RayBan(R) sunglasses and YSL(R) tie,
leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how
many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"


Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at
his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"


The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell(R) notebook computer,
connects it to his Apple iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite 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(R)
and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.


Within seconds, he receives an email on his Apple iPad(R) that the
image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an
MS-SQL(R) database through an ODBC connected Excel(R) spreadsheet with
email on his Galaxy S5(R) 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(R) printer, 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
Bud.


He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on
with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then Bud 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 Bud.


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


"No guessing 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 used millions of
dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me
you are; and you don't know sh*t about how working people make a
living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep."



"Now give me back my dog."









AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS.
Heh heh. Very good!


Yup!