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Re: A parable for the weekend ...

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angie

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Date Posted: 11:35:52 06/02/01 Sat
In reply to: Relo from StL 's message, "A parable for the weekend ..." on 18:30:00 06/01/01 Fri

Now that was good!
We were just discussing how gullable (I hope you know what I mean since I'm sure that's misspelled)people are in realationship to the Jenna Bush story and the energy crisis.
Your parable summed up lots of the problem!

>A shepherd was tending his flock in a remote pasture
>when suddenly a brand-new Jeep Cherokee appeared out
>of a dust cloud, advanced toward him and stopped. The
>driver, a 20-year-old young man wearing a Brioni suit,
>Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and a YSL tie, leaned
>out of the window and asked the shepherd, "If I can
>tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your
>flock, will you give me one?"
>
>The shepherd looked at the young guy, then at his
>peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered,"Sure."
>
>The young man parked his car, whipped out his notebook
>computer, connected it to a cellphone, surfed to a
>NASA page on the Internet where he called up a GPS
>satellite navigation system, scanned the area, then
>opened up a database and some Excel spreadsheets with
>complex formulas. He finally printed out a 150-page
>report on his hi-tech miniaturized printer, turned
>around to our shepherd and said, "You have here
>exactly 1,586 sheep!"
>
>"Amazing! That's correct! Like I agreed, you can take
>one of my sheep," said the shepherd. He watched the
>young guy make a selection and bundle it into his
>Cherokee. When he was finished the sheepherder said,
>"If I can tell you exactly what your political
>persuasion is, where you're from and who you work for,
>will you give me my sheep back?
>
>"Okay, why not," answered the young man.
>
>"You're a Democrat from Palm Beach and you're working
>for Jesse Jackson", said the shepherd.
>
>"That's correct," said the young man. "How did you
>guess that?"
>
>"Easy", answered the shepherd. "Nobody called you, but
>you showed up here anyway. You want to be paid for
>the solution to a question I already knew the answer
>to. And, you don't know squat about my business
>because you just took my dog."

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