Are you a consultant...?

[FOR ALL THE CONSULTANTS]

Really funny.. just read first 5 lines..

  A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW 7 Series advanced
out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni
suit, Gucci shoes, Cartier 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?

Bud 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 HP notebook computer, connects it to his Nokia N95
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 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 Bud.

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 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 Consultant', 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 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 back my dog''

courtesy to original author: RIJESH