Consultants .... Variation on a theme
 
 Once upon a time there was a shepherd and his sheep on a road. Suddenly,
 came out a spanking new Jeep Cherokee, driven by a young man in a Hugo
 Boss shirt, Yves St Laurent pants, Weston shoes and so forth.
 
 The car stops and the young man asks the shepherd: "If I guess how many
 sheep you have, can I have one?"
 
 The shepherd looks at the young man, looks at the grazing sheep and says
 yes. The young man parks the car, plugs on the notebook and the GPS,
 enters the NASA site, examines the field with the GPS, sets up a database,
 60 Excel spreadsheets full of algorithms and exponentials, plus a
 150-pages report printed on his high-tech mini printer. He turns to the
 shepherd and says:
 
 "You have here 1586 sheep.
 
 "The shepherd answers: "This is absolutely right, you can have your
 sheep."
 
 The young man takes the sheep and puts it in the boot of the jeep. Then,
 the shepherd asks him: "If I guess your job, can I have my sheep back?"
 
 The young man answers: "Yes."
 
 The shepherd says straight away: "You're a consultant."
 
 "How did you guess",says the young man.
 
 "Very easy, answers the shepherd,
 
 1) You came along without being called for.
 2) You charge me a sheep for telling me something I already knew.
 3) You have no idea what I'm doing, because you took my dog."

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