One of my favorite jokes that everyone has already heard...

One of my favorite jokes that everyone has already heard...

A shepherd was herding his large flock in a field when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud on the road towards him.

The driver, a young man in an expensive suit, dress shoes, and fancy sunglasses leans out the window and asks the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?"

The shepherd looks at the man, then looks at his peacefully grazing flock, and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"

The man parks his car, whips out his high-end laptop, connects it to his satellite phone, enters in his GPS coordinates, surfs to a NASA page where he calls up an imaging satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then sends the image to a machine-learning center in San Francisco. Within seconds, he receives an email that the image has been analyzed. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on a hi-tech, miniaturized printer/binder and, handing it to the shepherd, he says, “You have exactly 1,586 sheep.”

“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one,” says the shepherd. He watches, amused, as the young man picks up one of the animals and stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

Then the shepherd says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your profession is, will you give me back my sheep? “

The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”

“You’re a consultant.” says the shepherd.

“Wow! That’s correct,” says the young man, “but how did you guess that?”

“No guessing required.” answered the shepherd. “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; and you don’t know crap about my business. Now please return my dog."