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Modern Day Ant and Grasshopper
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24. April 2008 @ 13:50 |
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I read this on another forum and it gave me quite a good chuckle. Hopefully, you will to...
Modern Day Ant and Grasshopper
There are 2 Versions - Read Both
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 Clinton 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 work to 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 very careful how you vote in 2008
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