By popular demand from a prominent Crestwood resident, the "joke of trhe day!"

"You have to post this on the blog - it's just too funny, and it's completely party-neutral."

Enjoy!


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A cowboy named Bud was
overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in
Montana when suddenly a brand-new 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 Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, 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 Palm Pilot® 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 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, 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 a thing
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 ALL ABOUT.

Tom ford

NO. 1051