The ant and the grasshopper

[skybytch 273]

CLASSIC 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 he's 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.
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 he's 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 less fortunate are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN 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."
Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls 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 house 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 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.
And so, the other ants begin moving to the suburbs to start over....
pull & flare,
lisa
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On the other hand...you have different fingers

[kmcguffee 0]

LOL.....very funny but a little too true.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

[pop 0]

So true....
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he doesn't exist!"

[kinney29 0]

That's what I've been telling everybody.
Vote republican!

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

True. So very true
When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[freeflir29 0]

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Vote republican!

No shit!!!!!!! "It's all about the BOOBIES!"

[jfields 0]

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Vote republican!
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No shit!!!!!!!

But I thought shit was what you got when you DID vote Republican....
[Runs from impending flames]
Justin

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

Whatever you vote for, at least it's better than what we got over here !!!
When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[kingbunky 3]

i don't think it matters who you vote for, the job of the president is not to wield the power, but to draw attention away from it. how else did bill clinton manage to get elected? (i'm paraphrasing douglas adams here, but it seems to be applicable)
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bunky
get crazy, before it gets you.

[jfields 0]

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Whatever you vote for, at least it's better than what we got over here !!!

But your beer is so much better. Wanna trade politicans for beer?
Justin

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

I think not. You can have plenty of clouds though if you want them.
When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[kmcguffee 0]

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Whatever you vote for, at least it's better than what we got over here !!!

I thought you guys liked Blair. He seems to have a good reputation over here. Is there something we don't know?
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

[kinney29 0]

Whatever you vote for, at least it's better than what we got over here !!!
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HA Ha!
We Win!
We get higher crime, more STDs, and democrats.
Wait mabey ya'll got the better deal.
No we have Rayford, Z Hills, Deland, Eloy, Marana, ect.
Nope, I was right the first time, we win!

[skybytch 273]

>Vote republican!
No, vote Libertarian. If you're gonna go right, go all the way to the right.
Actually.... just vote.
pull & flare,
lisa
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On the other hand...you have different fingers

[Sebazz1 2]

I say vote for meSebazz........

[skymama 37]

Did you hear Clinton was in negotiations with NBC for an afternoon talk show? Seems a little unbecoming for our past President to now be at the same level as Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake!
Andrea
I'm high as a kite
I just might
Stop and check you out.

[kinney29 0]

Did you hear Clinton was in negotiations with NBC for an afternoon talk show?
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Thats what happens when you open up the zoo that is Arkasas and let the animals play.

[jfields 0]

It is unbecoming of the office. But then again, sadly, he has proved his daytime television qualifications.
Justin

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

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I thought you guys liked Blair

Blair doesn't know his arse from his elbow. He just a walking advert for a toothpaste company.
When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[Sebazz1 2]

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I say vote for me!!! Skydivers will get 100% tax break, i promise!!!

Did I mention Camp David will become the biggest fa king DZ the world has ever seen?
Chromey for VP...........
Sebazz........

[ChromeBoy 0]

Thanks for the honor Sebazz. I promise to serve our people well. Free skydives at Camp David out of Air Force One, Military C-130's and Marine 1! Party on Sebazz!Don't Drink and Post...

[kmcguffee 0]

Watch it with the Arkansas jokes! We have excommunicated Clinton.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

[kmcguffee 0]

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Did you hear Clinton was in negotiations with NBC for an afternoon talk show? Seems a little unbecoming for our past President to now be at the same level as Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake!

Yeah, that is an insult to Springer and Lake!
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

Well, Springer was mayor of Cincinati (however it's spelt)
When I grow up, I want to be a post whore

[skydiventom 0]

I suppose now isn't a good time for me to voice my "bleading heart opinion" =-)
Honest, it wasn't me.....