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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
« on: Dec 5th, 2007, 3:32pm » |
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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
TRADITIONAL VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs
and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The
grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
*****MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and
dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the ant should
be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide
pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of
the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper,
and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house where the news stations film the group
singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group
kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an
interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off
the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an
immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair
share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and
Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a
proportionate number of green bugs and, having
nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his
home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her
old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried
before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton
appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up
the last bits of the ant's food while the government
house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old
house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related
incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over
by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 3:45pm » |
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« Reply #2 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 3:59pm » |
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Re: THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
« Reply #3 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 3:59pm » |
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 so sad, so true
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« Reply #4 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 5:12pm » |
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That's what happens when you vote the cockroaches into government! 
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« Reply #5 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 5:40pm » |
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We have been overwhelmed by roaches......
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« Reply #6 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 5:52pm » |
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Australians just voted John Howard out and now we have Kevin Rudd in as prime minister with the Labor Party in power.
I hope they wont prove themselves to be cockcroaches!
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Re: THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
« Reply #7 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 9:28pm » |
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Funny stuff kids. Good posts.....I can't let this go of course.
So as a retaliation, George Bush was almost elected to solve all our problems. Contrary to every Republican tenet, he has enlarged the government and its powers to snoop on us and circumvent the Constitution....now a mantra of the neocons that have destoryed the GOP.
Nice going.
Howard was a beaut from where I stand. Any toadie friend of George Bush is no friend of mine. Good luck with Mr. Rudd. He looks at least competent for a change. We can't wait for a return of this in 2008. It's hard to imagine anything worse.
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« Reply #8 on: Dec 5th, 2007, 11:31pm » |
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Charlie,
Thank you for not disappointing. I knew that you would 'retaliate' and I knew your response would have nothing to do with the original post. You were 2 for 2.
-Fu
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« Reply #9 on: Dec 6th, 2007, 7:08pm » |
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Any time. 
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