techguy21801 Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 A bit heavy in the politices but some of it does seem true.CLASSIC VERSION:The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building hishouse and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinkshe's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no foodor 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 hishouse and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinkshe's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference anddemands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fedwhile others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up toprovide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of theant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America isstunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country ofsuch wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybodycries when they sing "its Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stagesa demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stationsfilm the group singing "We Shall Overcome". Jesse then has the groupkneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant hasgotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for animmediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share".Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-GrasshopperAct", retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined forfailing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, havingnothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated bythe government.Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in adefamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panelof federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parentwelfare recipients.The ant loses the case.The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits ofthe ant's food while the government house he's in, (which just happensto be the ant's old house), crumbles around him because he doesn'tmaintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper isfound dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, istaken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peacefulneighborhood.MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmondScar Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 OMG lol, that is funny but cruel? meh, lol, anyway, nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispy Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 Hmmm ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doggie Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 Hmmm ... lol umm.. yeh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 The modern version is funnier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmondScar Posted July 12, 2003 Share Posted July 12, 2003 One question, what does the ant think of all this heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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