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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 890577" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper<strong><span style="color: black"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: black"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: black">The ANT</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: black">AND THE</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: black">GRASSHOPPER </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: black"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: black">This one is a little different ....</span></strong></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Two Different Versions ...</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Two Different Morals</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>OLD VERSION</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>ant </strong>works</span></p><p><span style="color: black">hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>grasshopper</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">thinks the <strong>ant</strong> is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">Come winter, the <strong>ant</strong> is warm</span></p><p><span style="color: black">and well fed.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>grasshopper </strong>has</span></p><p><span style="color: black">no food or shelter, so he </span></p><p><span style="color: black">dies out in the cold.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Be responsible for yourself! </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>MODERN</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>VERSION</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>ant</strong> works hard</span></p><p><span style="color: black">in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house</span></p><p><span style="color: black">and laying up supplies for the winter. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>grasshopper </strong>thinks the <strong>ant</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">Come winter, the shivering <strong>grasshopper</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">calls a press conference and demands to know why the <strong>ant</strong> should be</span></p><p><span style="color: black">allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">and <strong>ABC </strong>show up to</span></p><p><span style="color: black">provide pictures of the shivering <strong>grasshopper</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">next to a video of the <strong>ant</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>America is stunned by the sharp contrast. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor <strong>grasshopper</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">is allowed to suffer so? </span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Kermit the Frog</strong> appears</span></p><p><span style="color: black">on <strong>Oprah</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">with the <strong>grasshopper</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeingGreen...'</span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>ACORN </strong>stages</span></p><p><span style="color: black">a demonstration in front of the <strong>ant's</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, <strong>We shall overcome.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">Then <strong>Rev. Jeremiah Wright</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">has the group kneel down to pray for the <strong>grasshopper's</strong> sake,</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black">while he damns the ants.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>President Obama </strong>condemns the <strong>ant</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">and blames</span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Pope</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">for the <strong>grasshopper's</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">plight..</span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">exclaim in an interview with <strong>Larry</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>King </strong>that the <strong>ant </strong>has</span></p><p><span style="color: black">gotten rich off the back of the</span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>grasshopper</strong>,</span></p><p><span style="color: black">and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">Finally, the <strong>EEOC </strong>drafts</span></p><p><span style="color: black">the <strong>Economic Equity &</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Anti-Grasshopper Act</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">retroactive to the beginning of</span></p><p><span style="color: black">the summer. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>ant</strong> is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number</span></p><p><span style="color: black">of <strong>green bugs </strong>and,</span></p><p><span style="color: black">having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the <strong>Government Green Czar</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">and given to the <strong>grasshopper.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The story ends as we see the <strong>grasshopper</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black">and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the <strong>ant's </strong>food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the <strong>ant's </strong>old house,</span></p><p><span style="color: black">crumbles around them because the <strong>grasshopper doesn't </strong>maintain it. </span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>ant </strong>has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The <strong>grasshopper </strong>is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken</span></p><p><span style="color: black">over by a gang of <strong>spiders </strong>who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black">The entire <strong>Nation </strong>collapses</span></p><p><span style="color: black">bringing the rest</span></p><p><span style="color: black">of the free world with it.</span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY:</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Be careful how you vote in 2012. </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>not a grasshopper!</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Make sure that you pass</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>this on to other ants.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>Don't bother sending</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>it on to any grasshoppers</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>because they wouldn't</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><strong>understand it, anyway</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 890577, member: 1246"] THE NEW ANT and the Grasshopper[B][COLOR=black] The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER This one is a little different ....[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=black][B]Two Different Versions ...[/B] [B]Two Different Morals[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][B]OLD VERSION[/B] The [B]ant [/B]works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The [B]grasshopper[/B] thinks the [B]ant[/B] is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the [B]ant[/B] is warm and well fed. The [B]grasshopper [/B]has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. [B][/B] [B]MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:[/B] [B][/B] [B]Be responsible for yourself! [/B] [B][/B] [B]MODERN[/B] [B]VERSION[/B] [B][/B] The [B]ant[/B] works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The [B]grasshopper [/B]thinks the [B]ant[/B] is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering [B]grasshopper[/B] calls a press conference and demands to know why the [B]ant[/B] should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. [B]CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,[/B] and [B]ABC [/B]show up to provide pictures of the shivering [B]grasshopper[/B] next to a video of the [B]ant[/B] in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. [B]America is stunned by the sharp contrast. [/B] [B][/B] How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor [B]grasshopper[/B] is allowed to suffer so? [B]Kermit the Frog[/B] appears on [B]Oprah[/B] with the [B]grasshopper[/B] and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not EasyBeingGreen...' [B]ACORN [/B]stages a demonstration in front of the [B]ant's[/B] house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, [B]We shall overcome.[/B] [B][/B] Then [B]Rev. Jeremiah Wright[/B] has the group kneel down to pray for the [B]grasshopper's[/B] sake,[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]while he damns the ants.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][B]President Obama [/B]condemns the [B]ant[/B] and blames [B]President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the[/B] [B]Pope[/B] for the [B]grasshopper's[/B] plight.. [B]Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid[/B] exclaim in an interview with [B]Larry[/B] [B]King [/B]that the [B]ant [/B]has gotten rich off the back of the [B]grasshopper[/B], and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the [B]EEOC [/B]drafts the [B]Economic Equity &[/B] [B]Anti-Grasshopper Act[/B] retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The [B]ant[/B] is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of [B]green bugs [/B]and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the [B]Government Green Czar[/B] and given to the [B]grasshopper.[/B] [B][/B] The story ends as we see the [B]grasshopper[/B] and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the [B]ant's [/B]food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the [B]ant's [/B]old house, crumbles around them because the [B]grasshopper doesn't [/B]maintain it. The [B]ant [/B]has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The [B]grasshopper [/B]is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of [B]spiders [/B]who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood. The entire [B]Nation [/B]collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. [B][/B] [B]MORAL OF THE STORY:[/B] [B]Be careful how you vote in 2012. [/B] [B][/B] [B][/B] [B]I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant[/B] [B]not a grasshopper![/B] [B][/B] [B]Make sure that you pass[/B] [B]this on to other ants.[/B] [B][/B] [B]Don't bother sending[/B] [B]it on to any grasshoppers[/B] [B]because they wouldn't[/B] [B]understand it, anyway[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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