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RCTjunkie on 28 October 2008

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different... Two Different Versions!

 Two Different Morals!

 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 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 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. 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 2008.



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ssj12 on 28 October 2008

lol



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akuma587 on 28 October 2008

In other news the ant is a slave to the capitalistic system. He goes to work everyday, he mows his lawn every week, he tips his waitress 10% everyday, he shops at Wal-Mart every week, and he is very well-insured. The ant was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a sleazy motel outside of Flint, Michigan.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

RCTjunkie on 28 October 2008
akuma587 said:

In other news the ant is a slave to the capitalistic system. He goes to work everyday, he mows his lawn every week, he tips his waitress 10% everyday, he shops at Wal-Mart every week, and he is very well-insured. The ant was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a sleazy motel outside of Flint, Michigan.

 

 ... the ant's family commented that he used and invested his money unwisely and solved a temporary problem with a permanet solution.

Coming up next, an entire colony found frozen to death when the government provided equal insurance and pay, no matter how hard they worked. The colony decided that they would get paid anyway if they did no work, and no preperation for winter was completed.



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akuma587 on 28 October 2008
RCTjunkie said:
akuma587 said:

In other news the ant is a slave to the capitalistic system. He goes to work everyday, he mows his lawn every week, he tips his waitress 10% everyday, he shops at Wal-Mart every week, and he is very well-insured. The ant was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a sleazy motel outside of Flint, Michigan.

 

 ... the ant's family commented that he used and invested his money unwisely and solved a temporary problem with a permanet solution.

Coming up next, an entire colony found frozen to death when the government provided equal insurance and pay, no matter how hard they worked. The colony decided that they would get paid anyway if they did no work, and no preperation for winter was completed.

Good, they can join the families who lost members of their family who didn't have health insurance, so they couldn't afford to go to the doctor to get even basic preventitive care.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

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ssj12 on 28 October 2008

this reminds me of the wood spiders



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RCTjunkie on 28 October 2008
akuma587 said:
RCTjunkie said:
akuma587 said:

In other news the ant is a slave to the capitalistic system. He goes to work everyday, he mows his lawn every week, he tips his waitress 10% everyday, he shops at Wal-Mart every week, and he is very well-insured. The ant was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a sleazy motel outside of Flint, Michigan.

 

 ... the ant's family commented that he used and invested his money unwisely and solved a temporary problem with a permanet solution.

Coming up next, an entire colony found frozen to death when the government provided equal insurance and pay, no matter how hard they worked. The colony decided that they would get paid anyway if they did no work, and no preperation for winter was completed.

Good, they can join the families who lost members of their family who didn't have health insurance, so they couldn't afford to go to the doctor to get even basic preventitive care.

 

Those family members were the ones who decided not to participate in building the winter homes, so the Government with common sense told them that they couldn't have any money for sitting around.

Survival of the fittest, or in this case, hard-workers.

 



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d21lewis on 28 October 2008

An ant bit me on the toe once.



Dogs Rule on 28 October 2008

"It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus: All year long, the grasshopper kept buying acorns for the winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came and the grasshopper died and the octopus ate all his acorns! And also he got a race car! Is any of this getting through to you Leala?"

BTW, your story conceils negative stereotypes.



akuma587 on 28 October 2008
RCTjunkie said:

Those family members were the ones who decided not to participate in building the winter homes, so the Government with common sense told them that they couldn't have any money for sitting around.

Survival of the fittest, or in this case, hard-workers.

 

Because people are just animals and we shouldn't at all be concerned when they die, especially if they are poor.  I mean what is a human life worth right?  We get rid of a bunch of them in Iraq everyday!

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson