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 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.'

 

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

 

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

 

Nancy Pelosi & 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 & 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 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 grasshopper doesn'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.

amazing.....

 

=) just may include that in my client newsletter. lol.

Not bad.

Then after the spiders take over, all the flies get scared and protest for better venom control laws. LOL

I always liked the old version. Lots to be learned from such a simple story.

We should all live by the moral of the original story, but unfortunately due to the pusification of society the later story is more relevant to us as a whole today. How sad, what would our forefathers think of us now? :snooty:

Me thinks you just like saying "pusification"

Me thinks you just like saying "pusification"

2 esses.

I was copy/pasting

I was copy/pasting

That would be Matt's excuse.

I've been compared to Matt :shock: :shock: I think I'm gonna cry myself to sleep tonight *sniff*

 

huh what did someone mention my name?

Me thinks you just like saying "pusification"

2 esses.

Hey spell check doesn't include the word pussification, maybe we should contact them to add it

Me thinks you just like saying "pusification"

2 esses.

Hey spell check doesn't include the word pussification, maybe we should contact them to add it

Just tell it to add the word to the dictionary. I added it, as well as pussifaction, pussify, pussiphile, pussiphobe and pussiface.

stay on topic ladies!

 

good post, good read