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Vekril
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Joined: 15 Oct 2002
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Location: Jersey
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 Posted: 06/25/03 - 12:28 Post subject: The grasshopper and the ant (2003 version)
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Some will smile and others will not. . .
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.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
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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 "its 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.
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 home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary 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 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's 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:
Vote Republican
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Kbarr
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 12:37 Post subject:
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Minion
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Joined: 29 Apr 2003
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Location: The Ghetto
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 12:48 Post subject:
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Vekril's greatest post ever.
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Paco
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Joined: 13 Oct 2002
Posts: 12940
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 13:08 Post subject:
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lol, no doubt
f*****g liberals
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Cryz
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Joined: 17 Feb 2003
Posts: 1013
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 13:20 Post subject:
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oi f*k'n ate grassoppahs!
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Silvermouse
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Joined: 12 Oct 2002
Posts: 11015
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 16:53 Post subject:
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Yep, the moral is: Get a job.
"But I have 3 kids and..."
"Get a job."
"But my wrist still hurts from the time that..."
"Get a job."
"It's hard to work because of a debilitating inju..."
"Get a job."
Stop feeding off the government. Stop making babies.
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Alarach
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 17:13 Post subject:
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Hah, the grasshopper worked pretty damn hard if you ask me. Couldn't have been easy completely taking everything from the ant!
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Rennol
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Location: Charleston, IL
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 17:41 Post subject:
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Wow that so totally parallels real life in every way imaginable! Thank you for changing my life. All of this time I thought people who weren't rich were for the most part hard workers who didn't complain and just wanted the best life for themselves and their families that they could provide.
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WheresNWS
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 17:44 Post subject:
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| Rennol wrote: | | Wow that so totally parallels real life in every way imaginable! Thank you for changing my life. All of this time I thought people who weren't rich were for the most part hard workers who didn't complain and just wanted the best life for themselves and their families that they could provide. |
Most rich people I know work harder and smarter than most poor people I know.
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Rennol
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Location: Charleston, IL
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 17:50 Post subject:
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That was definitely quick logical thinking there, glad to know that rich people are not just richer(!) than poorer people, they are also better! In every way!
Just remember that YOU live on the backs of those people, and it doesn't mean that they aren't working hard. And I'm not talking about McDonald's employees here or welfare recipients or homeless people. I'm talking about the majority of the population here, the people that do not fall into the super rich, or even moderately wealthy category. They aren't lazy, a lot of times, success or failure can be determined by an event which might seem totally random at the time, that the person might not even be able to influence.
I guess I'm just a nicer person overall.. towards other people, in my thinking. I tend to give others the benefit of the doubt.
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lauren000
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Location: colorado springs
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 18:11 Post subject:
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that's almost as good as uncle vekril's grammar lesson's
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lauren000
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Location: colorado springs
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 18:12 Post subject:
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| WheresNWS wrote: | | Rennol wrote: | | Wow that so totally parallels real life in every way imaginable! Thank you for changing my life. All of this time I thought people who weren't rich were for the most part hard workers who didn't complain and just wanted the best life for themselves and their families that they could provide. |
Most rich people I know work harder and smarter than most poor people I know. |
and most illegal immigrants I know work harder than most americans /shrug
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Luturb
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Livermore, California
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Posted: 06/25/03 - 18:24 Post subject:
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| Rennol wrote: | | Just remember that YOU live on the backs of those people, and it doesn't mean that they aren't working hard. And I'm not talking about McDonald's employees here or welfare recipients or homeless people. |
Well in the story it says the ant is working hard and the grasshopper is not. Don't see how you associate the "grasshopper" with hard-working blue collar types. Sounds more like McDonald's employees, welfare recipients, and homeless people to me.
| Quote: | | and most illegal immigrants I know work harder than most americans /shrug |
And they don't get welfare either.
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