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Old 10-07-2005, 05:57 AM
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Default *Cough* Off-Topic Friday. You know what to do.

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Default A satire of the Ant and Grasshopper. Sad but true in this great counrty

I have no idea who the author is.

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 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 are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, 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.
George W, exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings
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.
* A law firm represents the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant

* The case is tried before a panel of federal
judges that George W 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 provided 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.
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Default Sorry I missed out on the fun today.... AWOT Friday ;-p.

I am out of the country, (way out!!)San Salvador, El Salvador. It is raining &amp; the sancudos(mosquitos) love me, &lt;scratching self&gt;
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