TWO COWS, DIFFERENT SYSTEMS Retransmis par Nguyên Phu Son (JJR 64) ITALIAN SYSTEM: You have two cows. You milk the two cows and sell the milk to Parmalat while you get some funds from the European Union to reduce your production of milk. EGYPTIAN SYSTEM: You have two cows. Both are voting for Mobarak AMERICAN SYSTEM: You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the remaining cow dropped dead. DUBAI SYSTEM: You have two cows. You create a website for them and advertise them in all the magazines. You create a Cow City or Milk Town for them. You sell off their milk before the cows have even been milked to both legitimate and shady investors who hope to resale the nonexistent milk for a 100% profit in two years time. And you bring Tiger Woods to milk the cow first to attract attention. QATAR SYSTEM: You have two cows. They've been sitting there for decades and no one realized that cows could produce milk. You see what Dubai is doing; you go crazy and start milking the heck out of the cows in the shortest time possible. Then you realize no one wanted the milk in the first place. FRENCH SYSTEM: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want the government to pay for the milk that you don't have produced yet. Finally the government accepts, but you decide to go on strike again because you want three cows. RUSSIAN SYSTEM: You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. BRITISH SYSTEM: You have two cows. Both are mad.

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