Two versions of a classic tale.

[johnpaulh]

Was cleaning up some old files and ran across this little gem, the date stamp was 2007....Prophetic?

• Original Version:
  
  
  The Ant and the Grasshopper.
  
   
  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!
   
   ____________________________________________________
   
   
  Modern Version:
  
  
  The Old Ant, and Today's Grasshopper(s)
  
   
  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 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, 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.'
   
  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 for the grasshopper' s sake.
   
  Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and John Edwards 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.
   
  Obama gets his 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.
   
   
   MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote carefully.
  
  
  
  
  I gotta go get a cup of hot coffee, maybe it will make the shivers stop running down my spine!!!
  
   

[magooch]

I don't have any use for ants, or grasshoppers.  Who would create such miscreants anyway?  But if I was forced to choose between them, I much prefer grasshoppers.  At least they don't find their way into my house and try to run off with my food.  A few hoppers bouncing around outdoors gives the cats and birds something to do, but yeah, I understand that grasshoppers can be a very bad thing in large numbers. 


I've been dealing with some itty bitty little ants in the kitchen for the past couple of days, so I'm not feeling any sympathy for those little creatures at all.

[johnpaulh]

I was thinking of when I was younger and used them for fishing bait...the smallies loved hoppers!   

[Jim, West PA]

I've been dealing with some itty bitty little ants in the kitchen for the past
couple of days, so I'm not feeling any sympathy for those little creatures at
all.

Git ya a bottle of Terro, follow directions and your ants will be totaly gone before ya know it.