Post by safeharbor on Dec 21, 2007 3:37:35 GMT -6
The Ant and the Grasshopper: 2 Scenarios
*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!
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*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, "its 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 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, crumbling around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grass hopper 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.
Just a joke!!
*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 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, "its 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 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, crumbling around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow.
The grass hopper 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.
Just a joke!!
