Bill,
Last nights SNL was pretty funny in the News Segment.
It stated news was that
"Radio Flyer" the original red wagon was going to outsourse
its mfg overseas. Its new saying will be " Made for kids, by kids"

Will we may have to adjust our own saying soon????

Bob Wolfe


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From: "Brooks,Bill" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [DC] tech jobs overseas... (consulting)


> This may be truly where we are headed... - Bill
>
> A short story...
>
>  A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a
brand
> new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud toward 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 young man parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer,
connects
> it to his AT&T cell phone, 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 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 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 him back to me?"
>  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 give me back my dog."
>
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