Somewhat on topic funny

A shepherd is herding his flocks in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand new Jeep Cherokee advances out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie leans out of the window and asks our 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 yuppie, then at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure!"

The yuppie parks the car, whips out his notebook, connects it to a cell-phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system, scans the area, opens up a database and some 60 Excel spreadsheets with complex formulas. Finally he prints out a 150 page report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer, turns round to our shepherd and says, "You have here exactly 1,586 sheep!"

"That is correct. As agreed, you can take one of the
sheep," says the shepherd.

He watches the young man make a selection and bundle it in his Cherokee. 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.

"This is correct", says the yuppie, "How did you guess
that?"

"Easy," answers the shepherd. "You turn up here
although nobody called you. You want to be paid for the answer to a question I already knew the solution to, and you don't know shit about my business because Received on Wed Nov 01 2000 - 16:17:49 CST