Follow the Red Sun by Kaartijer
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A colorful sunrise in Galveston (where else!), shot taken about a week ago...
Today's joke:
A guy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California 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, obviously 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 wort h 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!
Comments (49)
clbsmiley
Gorgeous image!!
flavia49
splendid image and very cool tale!!
alessimarco
Wow...really beautiful!!!!
flora-crassella
FANTASTIC picture!!!!!!!!
MrsLubner
I remember those sunsets over the water well. I haven't seen anything like it here on the west coast so I think Texas has it copyrighted. :-)
jared99
Wonderful shot. And the toke is really cute :)
sharky_
Outstanding capture. Aloha
Sea_Dog
Joke's great, the image even better. What a wonderful image you've captured! Wish I were on that ship.
Lenord
ROFLMAO, your tax dollars at work, perfect. Red Sky in the morning, Sailors take warning Peace
magnus073
This really is a beautiful shot Eddie, it's one of those that really inspires
OrphanedSoul
Beautiful, wow that is some kind of rockin camera you have!
tennesseecowgirl
Oh this is beautiful~~ I visited Galveston about 1o years ago, and I hope to get back sometime soon.. Nice work Eddie~
annie5
The atmosphere is wonderful Eddie! That's a great photo, I think the boat is Carnival Comp :)
lyron
Fantastic picture!!
wlmay33
Now I don't care who you are (except Congress), that's funny (and not so funny, so accurate). Carnival makes some unique smoke stacks. Great shot.
jarmila
romantic capture...nice sunset
sandra46
super cool image, great shot!
adrie
Such a wonderful capture.
Faemike55
Very beautiful sunset! Great joke
Richardphotos
what an awesome sunrise.glad you were there and up so early.
Minda
Very Beautiful sunrise eddie and excellent capture i love it...Great to see u...and cute JOKE >>:):)...
Madbat
Wow! Splendid sunset!
whaleman
Great shot!
RodolfoCiminelli
Wonderful and fantastic backlighting.....!!!!
virginiese Online Now!
excellent picture !
anaber
OH MY:)Hello Eddie:)) so nice to see yu and so sorry if i am late:))THis is wonderful:))Where else?you say! May be...but very similar here in Foz do Arelho i will share something with you,one of this days, when i find...i have everything here,in a mess!LOL!!! Great photo once again...and perhaps the colours are really UNIQUE!Thank you so much for the smile:)
jmb007
belle image!
anianiani
woowwww.....outstanding work ...done***
blondeblurr
You just go to love Mother nature...when you see an image like this ! I discovered those black specks, when I zoomed in - what are they ? birds ? or your lens ?? BB
MikeB
Wonderful image!! Well Done