whenabiziyanmeetstumaniyan

Our Tumaniyan was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in sevan when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloudtowards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Cartiersunglasses, Tissot watch and YSLtie, leans out the window and asks Tumaniyan, 'If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?' Tumaniyan 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 outhis Dell notebookcomputer, connects it to his Nokia N95 cell phone, and surfs to a NASApage 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 thatthe image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses aMS-SQL database throughan 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-pagereport on his hi-Tech Miniaturized HP Laser Jet 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 tumaniyan. 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 Tumaniyan 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 an IT Consultant', says Tumaniyan. -------- 'Wow! That's correct,' says the yuppie, 'but how did you guess that?''No guessing required.' answered the Tumaniyan.'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. . . . .. . . . . .' [I like reading the last statement again and again] ''...Now give me back my dog"