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  • kylushK Offline
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    kylush
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    #1

    Recieved this in an email today, thought some people on here would enjoy it.

    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 and the rain 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 he is cold and starving.

    CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to
    provide pictures of the shiveringgrasshopper 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 grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'

    ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
    where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.”

    President Obama condemns the ant and blames
    President Bush for the grasshopper's plight.

    Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry Kingthat 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 theGovernment Green Czar and given
    to the grasshopper.

    The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is
    in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopperdoesn't maintain it.

    The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

    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 ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

    The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

    1998 Z28 Camaro

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    • legacy-user-532L Offline
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      legacy-user-532
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      #2

      haha I like it

      I had an idea like that once. It was a "Jump To Conclusions" mat.

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        Eurofan
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        #3

        kylush;304197 wrote:
        Recieved this in an email today, thought some people on here would enjoy it.

        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 and the rain 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 he is cold and starving.

        CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to
        provide pictures of the shiveringgrasshopper 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 grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'

        ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
        where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.”

        President Obama condemns the ant and blames
        President Bush for the grasshopper's plight.

        Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry Kingthat 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 theGovernment Green Czar and given
        to the grasshopper.

        The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is
        in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopperdoesn't maintain it.

        The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

        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 ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.

        The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

        Moral of the story: Dont listen to sob stories that Dems feed the nation to sway the majority to pull undecideds to their side. Its just ridiculous...

        Its a tough fucking world. Toughin up pussys.

        [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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          amicheze
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          #4

          That, of course, assumes that every one of the "haves" worked extremely hard to get what they have and that every one that is poor doesn't do anything to try to fix their situation.

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            amicheze;304216 wrote:
            That, of course, assumes that every one of the "haves" worked extremely hard to get what they have and that every one that is poor doesn't do anything to try to fix their situation.

            Sounds like safe assumptions to me....

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