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LoOOOooooNg over due from mE Posted By: cmerc On: 10-02-2009 @ 13:56:04 Reply | Edit Some Kind soul sent this to me! THE MODERN VERSION / ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER OLD 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 allowed to 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. Everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 Green Czar. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants 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 in 2012 !. -- 
Twas in the darkest depths of mordor I met a girl so fair, But GOLLUM, and the evil one  crept up
and slipped away with her. Posted By: 4Birdman On: 10-02-2009 @ 14:02:05 Reply | Top | Edit  -- 
1998 Trans Am - A little bit stock 1974 AMC AMX - The Grape Ape - 401/4-spd PatriotDream.org - Help build a soldier's dream car Posted By: cmerc On: 10-02-2009 @ 14:17:23 Reply | Top | Edit mmmmmmmmmmm wonder if I have the nerve to substitute Presidents/Political Parties for the Ant and the Grasshopper  maybe I will --
Twas in the darkest depths of mordor I met a girl so fair, But GOLLUM, and the evil one crept up
and slipped away with her. Posted By: PCLZ28 On: 10-02-2009 @ 17:21:17 Reply | Top | Edit You nailed that one!! --
"Nasty little F-bodieses! GOLLUM GOLLUM!" Posted By: JerseyFrank On: 10-02-2009 @ 18:12:01 Reply | Top | Edit Yu see...you can't have politicians in the insect world. there can be insect politicians, maybe wasps or termites, which in turn fight the ants. But ants are tough, and if your really an ant, you're safe in the hill. If your out in the cold, most likely your just a caterpillar. -- Current: 2004 Deville, bone stock livery.
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