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A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote New Zealand pasture when
suddenly a brand-new BMW 535i advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The
driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban Sunglasses and
YSL tie, 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, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?" The yuppie
parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his
Telecom Datacard . He surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls
up a GPS satellite navigation system 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 hundreds of
complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Telecom
Harrier and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints
out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer and finally turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586
sheep."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep." says the
shepherd. 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 the shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly
what your business is, will you give back my animal?"
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 yuppie, "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 give me back my dog".
suddenly a brand-new BMW 535i advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The
driver, a young man in an Armani suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban Sunglasses and
YSL tie, 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, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?" The yuppie
parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his
Telecom Datacard . He surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls
up a GPS satellite navigation system 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 hundreds of
complex formulas. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Telecom
Harrier and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints
out a full-colour, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
printer and finally turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1586
sheep."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep." says the
shepherd. 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 the shepherd says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly
what your business is, will you give back my animal?"
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 yuppie, "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 give me back my dog".
It's a new version of joke that I have seen over the years - well done though! 
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